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assistance of Dr. С. King and Mr. J. Е. Duthie. Finally, I wish to express my 
thanks to Sir Dietrich Brandis, к.сл.в., late Inspector-General of Forests in India, 
for many valuable specimens and for notes and advice. 
Wherever possible, I have given the vernacular names recorded by previous 
writers or attached to the specimens received, while an index of these names will be 
of help to some of those who may consult the work, in tracing the species they desire 
to find. At the same time it must be remembered that vernacular names are often 
very unreliable, and that the same name may be given to two or more different 
species in different parts of the country. 
In regard to Ше plates attached to this work, it is well to record that the 
main drawings have all been done by native artists under my supervision, and chief 
among these artists was Mahomed Idrees, a student of the Madras School of Art, who 
worked under my supervision in Madras during 1888 to 1890. Тһе rest have been 
. done by draughtsmen attached to the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and one ог 
iwo by Mr. Hormusji, draughtsman of the Botanical Department, Saharanpur. Some of 
the plates, as noted in the description, are borrowed; but most of them are from 
actual specimens, and I have endeavoured to give, for each species, as far as possible— 
(1) the leaves and leaf-sheath, (2) Ше culm-sheaths, (3) the flowers and inflorescence, 
(4) dissections of the various parts. "These dissections are entirely my own work, and 
I hope, therefore, that I may be excused for their roughness in many instances. I 
regret that I found it impossible to draw the parts of these dissections fully to scale 
and to indicate their relative size, It would have taken far more time than I had 
available for the work. 
Axs. Вот. Вот. Garp. CALCUTTA, Vor. VII. 
H. P.—Reg, No. 2868]—350—8-8-96. 
