PREFACE. Vll 



a large scientific community there is always a Society esta- 

 blished for the furtherance of such researches as have a very 

 wide-spread interest, not confined to the branch they especi- 

 ally illustrate, nor even to the class of sciences under which 

 they rank : but researches of such importance are necessarily 

 rare, and the Transactions in which they are embodied are 

 universally accessible. 



It is the intention of the Authors to continue the c Flora 

 Indica/ one of them in the Hookerian Herbarium, the other 



at the Calcutta Botanic Gardens. The propriety, however, 



pursuing the attempt to com 



Indian 



doubtful 



known 



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tls are, it may be better to ensure accuracy in the most 

 3rtant identifications only, and to omit quoting such works 

 re not worth referring to. In this we shall be guided by 

 opinions of those botanists who may honour us by con- 



sulting 



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