CONCLUSION. 
Having included in the present collection 112 figures of Scrraminnan Puayts, nearly all drawn 
from living specimens, being a much greater number than has ever before been given in any one work, I 
should with great pleasure have continued to render the collection still more perfect, from the plants which are 
already known to me; but the length of time that may probably elapse before many of those may flower, 
and my advanced period of life, admonish me to bring the present undertaking to a close, and to rest satisfied 
with having elucidated this beautiful tribe of plants in a much more satisfactory manner than I had expected, 
and given many new and splendid plants, of which, when I commenced my work, I had not even an idea. 
Besides the Scitaminean Plants here figured, I am acquainted with about fifty other species, the greater 
number of which are now growing in the Botanic Garden at Liverpool. Of these there are three or four 
species of Canna, about the same number of Maranta, about ten species of Phrynium, three or four species 
of Alpinia, about the same number of Costus, and fiye or six of Curcuma. 
Independent of the plants before referred to, I had the pleasure of receiving in the course of the 
last year (1828,) from my friend Dr. Wallich, Superintendant of the Hon. East India Company’s Botanic 
Garden at Calcutta, an account of a very considerable addition made by him to the number already known 
of Scitaminean Plants, in his extensive tour through the dominions of the King of Ava, amongst which 
he has particularly enumerated the following plants, viz. Phrynium macrostacl yum,  LHedychi harbatum 
and Javoyanum; Kempferia Craufurdia, Roscoeana, parviflora, and candida ; Gastrochylus (G. nov. limbo duplici 
Kempferiz, anthera Alpiniz) longiflora, et pulcherrima; Curcuma attenuata, Roscoeana, glaucophylla, cordifolia, 
grandiflora, parviflora, plicata, strobilina ; Amomum corynostachyum ; Zingiber harbatum; Costus argyrophyllus ; 
Globba bracteolata and expansa, all of these being species novissine. These newly discovered plants being added 
to those figured in the present work, and to those with which I was before acquainted, but which I have 
not, from various causes, been enabled to delineate and describe, would amount to upwards of 180 species; so 
that upon the whole it is probable there are not less than 200 Scitaminean Plants, or upwards, now known, 
whilst the number described by me in my new arrangement of Scitaminean Plants, published in the year 
1807, in the 8th volume of the Transactions of the Linnzean Society, amount only to about 50 plants, few 
of which had at that time been accurately figured. 
The regret which I feel in thus discontinuing my pleasing occupation, whilst so large a portion of 
plants yet remains to be- figured, is however greatly diminished by the consideration, that even under the 
most favourable circumstances, considering the slow and reluctant manner in which many of these plants 
produce their flowers, I could not be expected to render this a perfect work; and still more so by the reflection 
that a considerable progress will shortly be made in cartying this undertaking nearer to perfection, by a publication 
lately announced by Dr. Wallich, who has visited this kingdom with the result of his immense collections 
for various years past through the provinces of Hindostan, Nipal, the Straits of Malacca, and lastly in the 
Burmese territory, from which he has been enabled to bring with him upwards of 1200 drawings, and to 
obtain 8000 species or more, of plants from those countries, the majority quite new. From these Dr. Wallich 
has proposed to publish, in the first instance, a select number of East India plants, in three vols. folio, under 
the title of Prayra: Astarica Rarrores, each volume to consist of 100 plants, to be engraved and coloured 
