08 FLORA INDICA. 



tute the only herbarium of importance to which we have failed 



procure 



that justice in the body of this work, to which, as the disco- 

 verer of many of the plants described, he is pre-eminently 

 entitled. 



extensiv 



the Hookerian Herbarium, in which, our work is carried on. 

 This is beyond all doubt both the richest and best-named her- 

 barium in the world, and it possesses the rare advantage ot 



containin 



an 



ed 



that all may be brought at one time under inspection. For 



thes 



^ 



owner 



the Hookerian Herbarium has been studied by most mono- 

 graphists at home and abroad, and possesses in consequence 

 an enormous proportion of authentically-named specimens, 

 by Arnott, Asa Gray, Bentham, Boott, Choisy, Decaisne, De 

 Vriese, Grisebach, Herbert, Lehmann, Liebmann, Lindley, 

 Meisner, Miers, Miquel, Moquin-Tandon, Meyer, Munro, 

 Nees von Escnbeck, etc. etc., and illustrates the published 

 works of these and many other botanists, to an extent that 

 no other herbarium does. It is also enriched with many va- 

 luable manuscript notes, dissections, sketches, and remark 

 by its possessor, and by M. Planchon, who was for sonic 

 years its curator. It would be out of place here to give a 

 history of the rise and progress of the Hookerian Herbarium, 

 or of the sources from which it is mainly derived: though 

 this would form a most interesting contribution to the litera- 

 ture of the science, and would include a history of the progress 



half- 



tury. It is especially 



constitute 



part of our materials, will give the reader an idea of the na- 

 ture of the abundant sources from which its riches are de- 

 rived. The Indian portion of the Hookerian Herbarium com- 

 prises the undermentioned collections. 



