PREFACE 



This little book is, in substance, my "Lessons in 

 Elementary Botany " adapted for use in India. 



But in preparing it, I have had in view the want, often 

 felt, of some handy resume of Indian Botany, which might 

 be serviceable not only to residents in India, but also to 

 any one about to proceed thither, desirous of getting some 

 preliminary idea of the Botany of that country. 



I might have entitled the book "Illustrations of Indian 

 Natural Orders of Plants ; " but as the same chapters, 

 ^ with necessary alterations, on the Elements of Structural 

 j> and Physiological Botany are prefixed to the systematic 

 part which I originally drew up for my previous work, 

 ^ the whole thing seems to me tolerably suited to serve 

 J as a "First Book of Indian Botany." 



My chief difficulty has been in the selection of suitable 

 Types to illustrate the Natural Orders on the plan of the 

 late Professor Henslow. In a book for use in Britain 



