PREFACE. 



The following papers originally appeared in the Journal of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal. For the convenience of botanists interested 

 in the Flora of the region of -which they treat, I had some spare copies 

 of each printed off as it appeared, with the pages of all continuously 

 numbered in the lower corner. As the whole of the Thalamifloral 

 ordci'S (in the sense of the Genera Plantarum of Messrs. Bentham and 

 Hooker) have now been finished, I think it may be an additional con- 

 venience to publish an index to the species described under these 

 orders. It will be observed that each page bears two numbers. The 

 one at the top of the page is that of the volume of the Journal in 

 which the paper originally appeared, and it is not noted in this index : 

 it may, however, be used by any Avriter quoting these papers. The 

 second number — the one at the bottom of the page — is the one used in 

 the index. 



The dates of the original publication of the five papers which 

 cover the TJialamifloroe ai^e as follows : — 



No. 1 3rd July, 1889. 



„ 2 5th February, 1890. 



„ 3 1st April, 1891. 



„ 4 13th June, 1892. 



„ 5 7th June, 1893. 



I may mention that the first paper contains no plants of the 

 Andatnan or Nicobar Islands ; for it was not part of my original 

 scheme to include, Avithin the area treated of, any of the islands except 

 those which, like Penang and Singapore, lie close to the coasts of the 

 Peninsula. Subsequently, however, I decided, as a matter of conve- 

 nience, to include the Andaman and Nicobar groups, altliough the 

 Flora of the Andamans is in character more Burmese than JIalayan. 

 I propose, as leisure permits, to continue the publication of these 

 papers in the Journal of the same Society ; and, as each great group is 

 finished, to supply an index of the species included in it. 



In a Monograph of the Indo-lMalayan species of Anonacese, publish- 

 ed in the Annals of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta since the paper 



