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LIST OF SOME WORKS ON INDIAN BOTANY 



TO WHICH REFERENCE MAY BE MADE FOR DETAILED 

 INFORMATION. 



Several of these a?-e rare or out of prints but may be occasionally 

 picked up seco7id-hand. 



There is no good work on the general botany of India. Several 

 named i7i the folloiving enumeration are excellent so far as 

 they go, but most of them either apply to the botafty of a 

 limited area, or are incomplete or out of date; others again 

 are hardly scientific. 



Hooker, Sir J. D.— "The Flora of British India," 8vo. ; 

 London, 1875 — ^^^^ still in progress: complete to the end of 

 Dicotyledons, with descriptions of Genera and Species. 



Hooker and Thomson. — '-'Flora Indica " vol.i. Svo. ; London, 

 1855, Ranunculaceje to Fumariace^e, with a unique Essay 

 prefixed on the Geographical relations of the Indian Flora. 

 Under the title of " Praecursores ad Floram Indicam," the same 

 authors published in the "Journal of the Linnean Society of 

 London,'' systematic reviews of other Natural Orders: Cam- 

 panulaceas, Saxifrageae and allies, Crassulacese, Caprifoliaceae, 

 Balsamineae, and Cruciferas. 



Wight and Arnott. — " Prodromus Floras Peninsulae Indias 

 Orientalis," vol. i. Svo.; London, 1834. Descriptions of Genera 

 and Species of the Indian Peninsula, from Ranunculaceae to 

 Dipsaceae. 



Roxburgh.—" Flora Indica." Three vols. 8vo. ; Serampore, 

 1S32. The third volume, edited from posthumous manuscripts 



