TROPICAL PERENNIALS SUITED TO PLAINS OF INDIA. 



Agave, species of Jacaranda ovalifolia (Rose wood) 



Sanseviera guineensis Hevea guianensis 



Baccharis genistelloides Schinus molle 



Dipterix odorata (Tonquin Bean) Bertholletia excelsa (Brazil Nut 

 Caesalpinia braziliensis, &c. (Bra- tree) 

 zil wood) 



The foregoing lists are published as memoranda, nearly, as origin- 

 ally prepared. They might easily be rendered more copious, by an 

 examination of the notices of the useful plants of different countries, 

 but these are scattered, like the accounts of those of India, in a variety 

 of publications, some Botanical, others Medical. A few are found in 

 the lists of the Commerce of different countries, and others are men- 

 tioned by Travellers, of whom, however, but few are copious and exact 

 in the relations, like Humboldt, or Spix and Martius. The names, to 

 be fully useful to practical men, ought to be accompanied with 

 a short account of the nature and uses of the different plants, their 

 peculiar habits and culture, and the parts of India to which they 

 appear best suited. This, it is evident, would require much time, in 

 fact, constitute a work of itself. By referring to the Index, most of 

 them will be found in the " Illustrations of Himalayan Botany," and 

 generally with notices respecting the parts of India to which they are 

 suited. 



