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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 3] (1916 
XI.—THE FLORA OF MADRAS. 
The Flora of Madras, of which the x aime 3 instalment (pp. 
1-200) dealing with the natural families Ra 
especially competent to carry this new undertaking to a 
successful issue. That he has been able to supply a substantial 
instalment so soon is due, as the author explains in the intro- | 
‘duction to Part I. to the circumstance that he had the assistance 
of Mr. S. T. Dunn, formerly Superintendent of the Botanical 
and Forestry Department, Hong Kong, in preparing the draft 
of the botanical portion of the first 132 pages, to the end of 
Biophytum, and that for the genus Impatiens, which follows, 
the results of the patient study to which Sir Joseph Hooker 
devoted the last years of his life were available for use. Owing 
to his other engagements the assistance of Mr. Dunn is no longer 
available and the rest of the task is therefore being undertaken 
y Mr. Gamble alone. 
The method of presentation adopted is that followed in the 
corresponding work for Bengal, issued in 1903. The object of 
that method is to enable the ready identification of a species 
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