460 THE EARLY HISTORY OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
of some of the chief species described in ‘a systematic book of the 
highest botanical merit, which he prepared conjointly with Dr. G. 
Walker Arnott, Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow, 
and which was published under the title Prodromus Mlore Deninsule 
Indice. The Prodromus was the first attempt at a Flora of any part 
of India in which the natural system of classification was followed. 
Owing chiefly to the death of Dr. Walker Arnott, this work was 
never completed, and this splendid fragment of a Flora of Peninsular 
India ends with the natural order Dipsacee. 
e next great Indian botanist whose labours demand our 
attention is William Griffith. Born in 1810, sixteen years. after 
Wight, and twenty-four years later than Wallich, Griffith died 
before either. But the labours even of such devotees to science as 
From thence he made botanical expeditions to the Assam Valley, 
exploring the Mishmi, Khasia, and Naga ranges. From the latter 
he passed by a route never since traversed by a botanist, through 
the Hookung Valley down the Irrawadi to Rangoon. Having been 
appointed, soon after his arrival in Rangoon, surgeon to the Embassy 
portion of the Himalaya of which Simla is now the best-known 
spot. He then made a run down the Nerbudda Valley in Central 
devotion. Griffith was a man of genius. He did not confine himself 
to the study of flowering plants, nor to the study of them from the 
point of view of their place in any system of classification. He also 
on 
travelled he made sketches of the most striking features in the 
scenery. His habit of making notes was inveterate; an 8 
itinerary diaries are full of information not ouly on the botany 
