236 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
work on Indian Plants, now publishing at their expence. The 
drawings and descriptions have been examined by Dr. Roxburgh, 
who has affixed specific names to some that were left blank by 
Captain Hardwicke.” Another letter in the volume is from Hard- 
it would seem that the drawings, or some of them, had come again 
into his possession: he says :—“I must I fear be considered among 
the unprofitable and least worthy of your correspondents; but I 
continue to hope the reasons I have already stated for not being 
more communicative will still plead my apology and render the 
, and if you should be 
h them, may I beg you will add or diminish what- 
as his M§. descriptions show, he was also a bota ‘ 
mean order, although the records of his work are but slight. 
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collections, though he refers to *‘ plantas nonnullas in Principatu 
irinagur, seu Gara aut Garawhal nuncupato, lectas ab altero ex 
collectoribus Wallichio obtemperantibus cui nomen Kamroop,* ex 
B norum ordine.”’ Nor are the Mauritian plants, of which 
he sent 247 to Banks in 1811-12, referred to in the Flora of 
Mauritius; this, however, is less surprising, as the National 
Herbarium was but slightly if at all consulted in the preparation 
of that work. His Indian plants are neither in the National 
barium nor at Kew, though Mr. Hemsley informs me that in 
1828 Sir William Hooker named for him a considerable collection 
of drawings and plants. . 
he collection to which the drawings belong was made in 1796, 
by which time he was already proficient in botany. He must have 
ge 
* This collectot’s ‘nadia ix iven as that of a locality under Adiantum 
venustum in Hooker's Species Filicum, ii. 41, aid 
