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views of distribution — Many well-known European plants have 

 other names in the Indian Floras — Instances from Manuneulacece . 38 



Range of Himalayan species in altitude, and of some of these and 

 others in longitude, from Europe to the Chinese Sea — Illustrations 

 by parallel instances of distribution in Europe and North Asia, etc. 39 



Principles upon which the study of geographical distribution depends 39 



Specific centres — Our own opinion regarding them — Dispersion not 

 altogether attributable to causes now in operation — Effects of geo- 

 logical change — Ly ell's and Forbes' views — Application of them to 

 Indian Flora — Migration between India and Java — Effects of 

 winds, animals, and oceanic currents — Dean Herbert's views of 

 the effect of the preoccupation of the soil . , . . .41 



Application of these principles — Uncertainty of effects of reproduc- 

 tion — Principles adopted by ourselves in the 'Flora Indica' in re- 

 ducing species — In adopting a system of nomenclature . . .43 



Rejection of native names for species — Follow general plan of Wight 

 and Arnott's 'Prodromus' 



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IT, SUMMABY OP LABOUES OF INDIAN BOTANISTS . . , .45 



A, Publications of importance. 

 4 Hortus Malabaricus' — Rheede — Rumphius' ' Herbarium Amboinense' 

 — Hermann — Burmann's 'Thesaurus' — Linnaeus' c Flora Zeylanica' 

 — Loureiro's ' Flora Cochinchinensis ' — his life and travels - • 46 



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Roxburgh's ' Flora Indica' — Wallich's c Plantse Asiatics© Rariores* — 

 his work on Nipal plants — Roxburgh's Coromandel plants . . 48 



Dr. Jack — Wight and Arnott's 'Prodromus' 47 



Wight's * Contributions to the Botany of India,' and ' Illustrations of 

 Indian Botany' — c Icones Plantarum Indi® Orientalis ' — ' Spici- 



legiuna Neilgherrense* ......... 49 



Mr. Bentham's labours 50 



De Candolle's € Prodromus' — Royle's 'Illustrations of the Botany of 



the Himalaya' 51 



Decaisne and Cambessedes' plants of Jacquemont's Voyage — Graham's 



catalogue of Bombay plants . .52 



Moon's catalogue of Ceylon plants — Voigt's 'Hortus Suburbanus 



Calcuttensis' — Lindley's * Genera and Species Orchidearum' — Ms 



other labours — c Folia Orchidacea' 53 



llorsfield's labours — Brown and Bennett's ( Plant® Javanicse Rariores' 



— Blume's 'Bijdragen' 54 



•Flora Jay©' — 'Rumphia' — 'Museum Botanieum' — Korthals' 



• Kruidkunde' — Miquel's monograph of Piperacece and Fid . . 55 



De Vriese's works — Hasskarl's ' 1 tortus Bogoriensis' — Presl's 'Reli- 



quiae llcenkianee' — Blanco's 'Flora de las Filipinas' — Ledebour's 

 * Flora Rossiea,' ■ Flora Altaica' * 



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Other Russian botanists — Boissier's ' Diagnoses' — European Floras . 57 



American works 



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