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name was ever changed from that of Z. microphylla, which, as 

 Wight and Arnott candidly admit, had been duly given it by 

 Roxburgh ? 



The great merits of the illustrious botanists who deliberately 

 set aside the only valid and, as it happens, perfectly appropriate 

 name in breach of a plain fundamental canon, cannot be accepted 

 as a ground for throwing over an essential principle. 



What the plant of the " Encyclopaedia " may have been possibly 

 remains to be seen ; that from Wight's country, which is certainly 

 the familiar " Nnmmularia " of Northern India, is unquestionably 

 Z. tnicrophylla, Roxburgh, as the excellent drawing in the 

 Calcutta Herbarium, of which a duplicate exists at Kew, would 

 prove most conclusively were it neeessary to support the description 

 given in the " Flora Indica." In his criticism of the treatment by 

 Mez of the forms grouped in the " Flora of British India " under 

 Maesa indica, Sir Dietrich Brandis very justly points out that the 

 results arrived at by a monographer working on often imperfect 

 herbarium material may very likely be at some time modified by 

 other workers with more extended knowledge ; but in the meantime 

 something must be done, and the best course, unless we are pre- 

 pared to give reasons and amend his scheme, is ordinarily, 

 perhaps, to follow the monographer, who has made a family or 

 group his special study. The arrangement of the families, with a 

 few explained departures, follows that of De Candolle as carried 

 out in the "Genera Plantarnm" of Bentham and Hooker, an 

 arrangement which brings "Indian Trees" into working corre- 

 spondence with the "Flora of British India" and the leading 

 English and Indian Herbaria. Synonyms are, natural i y, sparingly 

 cited, but reference is given to a published figure where it exists, 

 and a number of inset illustrations, drawn from sp. imons. add to 

 the utility of the book. 



In conclusion, his many friends will join in congratulating 

 tne author on the successful conclusion of his eight years' labour, 

 ami tne issue of a work which should prove of great assistance 

 not only to foresters, but to other civil otlicers, and also, in spite 



*U,f nJS^Sf m the Intr °<liiction, to all interested in the 

 I loras of the different Provinces and Dependencies of India. 



J. K. D. 



devoted 

 Western 



.chids of the North-Western Himalaya -The second part 

 rWP T e ? th f Annals (, J the Iif >y al Botanic Garden, 



\nL» T t0 Which i8 dated February, 1904, is wholly 

 « estern HimS h^t^ J? gUre * of the orchids of the North- 

 DepaHmen NnJh. 7 t" I' Duthie ' B ' A " late director, Botanical 

 Kew S a ri^ th Tu n Indla ' and *» Assistant for India in the 

 tion lies betwSn B\f ea comprised under the above designa- 



lofcg., and extends^ "£ 36 ° N ' lat «* 7i ° *>' to SO 40' ft 

 territories of SSS B p ^° . Knmaon on the east to the frontier 



This is a val hi ' ^ Md Ha * arH on th * weflt - 



andMr.Duthie?stohrl inte, i. eB , tin S contribution to orchidology, 



e 1B t0 be oongiatalate.1 on having \,,a *h» ^rvices of 



congratulated on having 



