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work progress. -il lie became by degrees the recognised authority 
on the subject, to whom botanists of every nationality sent their 
collections from all parts of the world for identification. As a 
consequence his monograph, which unfortunately has not yet 
been published, received additions up to the time of his death. 
His devotion to this family even after his retirement, when, at 
the request of Sir J. D. Hooker and Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, he 
elaborated accounts of it for the Fh>m nf British India— 
published lS'.KV-l: for the Fh,ra C'/j>m«ix— published 1SD7-8 : 
• of the late 
^'T nidtcao ih.scripLa,. ej secus ■>■.,>,.,.. 
orohnatae. Calcutta, 1876. 8vo. pp' v 4-"xxh 
Roxburgh, Flora indica . '^'^ **?7. 
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