X PREFACE. 



Mell worthy tbe atteiitiou of Goverumeut) under each plant, with the autho- 

 rities for the same. 



"It gives the habit of the Plant, with some information regarding the 

 llower, the native country, and time of flowering and seeding, from con- 

 sultation of the last parts of which much instruction may be derived as to 

 the selection of species for introduction, the necessity of changing the 

 mode of cultivation, etc. 



"It gives in all definable cases the vernacular names, and these appear to 

 have been obtained by no common care, and consequently to lose in a great 

 measure the usual inapplicability. 



" Lastly. It gives a list of desiderata for introduction, generally founded 

 on those principles without which introductions of plants become of no avail. 

 To this the attention of all Indian Horticulturalists should be chiefly guided." 



