On the Botany of India, 125 



in 1814*, under the direction of Dr W. Carey, Dr Roxburgh's 

 iViend. This catalogue, which is written on a very contracted 

 scale, makes known the botanical name, the Indian denomina- 

 tion, the native place, and the periods of introduction, flower- 

 ing and maturity of each plant. It concludes with an appen- 

 dix containing the Indian species not yet introduced into the 

 garden but known to Dr Roxburgh. 



That gentleman, however, did not confine himself to this 

 brief indication of his labours, but successively sent to the East 

 India Company numerous drawings and descriptions of the ve- 

 getables of India ; and the Company made a selection of them, 

 which was published, under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks, 

 under the title of Plants of Coromandel -f. This magnificent 

 work contains descriptions and coloured figures of 300 species 

 of Indian plants, selected from among those pre-eminent for 

 beauty or utility. 



But the very magnificence of this publication rendered it im- 

 possible to extend it to the whole of the vegetation of India, and 

 Dr Roxburgh conceived the project of publishing a Flora of 

 that country in a simpler form. Unfortunately, however, his 

 health did not permit him to carry into effect this plan. He 

 retired from India in 1814, and died in England. The Flora 

 of India, however, was not lost to science, for his friend Dr 

 Carey published two volumes of it at Serampore;]:, and inserted 

 in it, besides the plants described by Roxburgh, all those which 

 had been successively discovered by himself, Messrs Wallich, 

 Jack, and other botanists. This work is arranged according to 

 the Linnean system, and contains the first five classes. 



After Dr Roxburgh's death, the superintendence of the Cal- 

 cutta garden was confided to Dr Wallich, whose talents and ac- 



• JTortus Benghaknsis, or a Catalogue of the Plants growing in the Ho- 

 nourable East India Company's Garden at Calcutta. 1 vol. 8vo. Serampore, 

 1814. 



■f- Plants of the Coast of Coromandel selected from drawings and descrip- 

 tions, presented to the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India 

 Company, by W. Roxburgh, 3 vols, folio. London I. 1795, II. 1798, III. 

 1819. 



X Flora Tndica, or Description of Indian plants by the late W. Roxburgh, 

 edited by W. Carey, to which are added descriptions of plants more recently 

 discovered by Nat. M' allicli, &.C., 8vo. Serainporc. Vol. I. 1820, vol II. 1824. 



