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illustration of the links that connect the coast and desert flora 
of Western India with parts of Hast Africa and the sub-tropical 
Nile Valley. 
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extending to the northern shores of the Mediterranean. ne or 
more species of Datura were used lon ago in parts of what is 
now the Bombay "Presidency, although not by thieves, for 
criminal purposes ; but the art of the road poisoner, and most of the 
Col. Perronet Thompson sent the seeds from which the type of 
the picture in the Botanical Magazine (t. 5266) was raised, his 
regiment had its headquarters at Sialkot, on the Kashmir border; 
but the “prophet’s flower” does not grow within many scores of 
miles from that station, and in spite of the defective material in 
this country, its occurrence between the right bank of the Indus 
and the frontier hills of Northern Sind may be assumed wit 
certai vs 
Of the general accuracy of the nomenclature throughout this 
Work it is needless here to multiply examples, but the whole- 
Some rule hitherto followed in these local and Colonial Floras o 
using that specific name which is the oldest under the genus to which 
Besides, if we are to set aside the arguments, on. this vexed 
question, of Alph. De Candolle—which are at the same time 
ottener ignored than met, not to say answered—why not * Briedelia 
retusa, Linn.” ?, for the credit, or otherwise, of having devised 
that not very happy trivial name belongs to Linnaeus. The 
criticism under B, Hamiltoniana, on the identification in Bengal 
