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INTKODUCTION TO PAET I. 



IT has been arranged that the * Flora of Madras ' should 

 issue in Parts of 192 pages each, and this is the first of the 

 Parts. Others will issue by degrees until the whole is 

 complete, when the Introduction to the whole with the Key 

 to the Families will be prepared, to be placed, for binding 

 purposes, at the beginning of the work. 



It is right to explain here that the draft of the botanical 

 portion of about the first 132 pages was prepared by Mr. 

 S. T. Dunn, B.A., F.L.S., F.B.G.S., late Superintendent of 

 the Botanical and Forestry Department at Hong Kong. He 

 was then, most unfortunately, obliged to relinquish his share 

 in the work, so that the responsibility for its continuation and 

 for the work of editing the whole rests entirely with the 



undersigned. 



J. S. GAMBLE. 



Liss : Nov. 1915. 



