338 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XV 11. 



Flowering Plants of Western India, " by A. K. Nairne, the author 

 himself says in the introduction to his volume : '.? The same deficiency, 

 and for the same reason, will be noticed as to the time of year when 

 the different species flower." The best and, to a great part, the only 

 information existing, we get from Cooke's " Flora of the Presidency 

 of Bombay." As yet only the first volume and two parts of the second 

 volume have appeared, including all the orders, following Hooker's 

 classification from the Rannnculacese up to the Verbenaceee inclusive. 

 For th'3 rest of the phanerogamic orders I made use of Wood row's 

 " Catalogue of the Flora of Western India." ] 



In the subjoined table we shall give the flowering times according 

 to months. The flowering period of a plant does not usually occupy 

 one month only, but several and, thus, the same plant may be found 

 in two, three, four, or more columns, the number in each column 

 designating the number of those plants which were seen flowering 

 during the respective month. As the vegetative processes are, for a 

 great part, different in woody and herbaceous plants, it may be said 

 beforehand, that there will be differences in the sexual processes too. I 

 shall, therefore, give separately the flowering periods of the woody 

 plants comprising the trees and shrubs, and of tlie herbaceous plants 

 compri-ing the rest. 



Whether further distinctions are to be made, we shall see in the course 

 of our investigation. 



The folio-wins? table will, in addition to the flowering time, contain 

 the mean monthly rainfall, humidity, cloud proportion, and temperature 

 of the Bombny Presidency, as given in the above tables : — 



1 Cf. Woodrow Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc: XL 118, XI. 265, XI. 420, XI. 635, XII 

 162, XII. 354, XII. 515, XIII. 427. 



