VI PREFACE. 



tendence, but in dealing with the text confined himself to 

 slight verbal corrections. One generic name, that of Gyno- 

 cardia, was substituted by him for the barbarous name, 

 Chauhnoogra, adopted by Roxburgh, and this alteration 

 has met with general acquiescence. On the portion of 

 the second edition of the ' Hortus Kewensis ' printed after 

 the death of Dryander, in 1810, he bestowed the same 

 attention which had been devoted by Dryander to the 

 earlier portion, and by Solander to the first edition, adding 

 largely to the elucidation of certain Families and Genera. 

 These contributions will be found extracted in the present 

 volume. 



In the list of Mr. Brown's works given by Pritzel there 

 occur two: "No. 1365f, Of three species of the natural 

 order Orchideae, Lond. 1817, 4, 8 pp. 2 tab. col.;" and 

 No. 1366t, Select Orchidese, ib. 4, 2 pp." both extracted 

 from ' The Journal of Science and the Arts/ which do not 

 properly belong to Mr. Brown, but formed part of a 

 series of papers on Cape Orc/iidete, by Mr. Bellenden Ker. 

 These, of course, have not been admitted into the present 

 edition. 



I have only, in addition, to return my best thanks to 

 my friends, Mr. Carruthers, and the Rev. W. W. New- 

 bould, for much valuable assistance in reading and com- 

 paring the proof-sheets j and to Mr. Carruthers, in parti- 

 cular, for the preparation of the elaborate Index of Names 

 of Plants appended to the present volume. 



JOHN J. BENNETT. 



November 30th, 1867. 



