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doubtful) are a waste of time and space, and Dr. Cooke has exercised a 

 commendable discretion in keeping his references within comparatively 

 narrow limits. Sir Joseph Hooker's Flora is quoted as a matter of course, 

 and so are the catalogues of Graham, Gibson, Talbot, and Woodrow, and 

 also the Flora of Dalzell and Gibson; but old books, such as Rheede's 

 Hortus Malabarims, are not quoted. Vernacular names are given when 

 such are current. Brief notes of economic uses are supplied, and Dr. Watts's 

 Dictionary of Economic Products i& invariably quoted. In the case of the 

 less widely distributed species, localities are nearly always given. The book 

 is reaUy a model of good systematic work. It is well printed, and its pages 

 are disfigured by very few typographical errors. When it shall have beeu 

 completed, a great impetus and encouragement may, it is hoped, be given 

 to the cultivation of botanical knowledge by all those whose duties or 

 inclinations lead them into the fields or forests of the senior Presidency 

 of India. G. K. 



