280 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
is prefaced by an introduction in English in another hand (not 
Buchanan’s), which is followed by a Latin translation m the hand 
of the writer of the descriptions. The introduction, which is clearly 
by Buchanan, and is dated ‘Luckipore, August, 1796,” runs as 
follows :— 
‘Tn this catalogue are the names of such plants as I met with 
quently mistaken, as the name given me may have been generic or 
perhaps trivial. After my return to Calcutta, I shewed the drawings 
and dried pl he 
Burman country, and he has written down the names of such as 
were known to him. Before I conclude, I must acknowledge ™Y 
obligations to my friend Roxburgh, who with a liberality inspired 
The enumeration of the title, which runs: ‘ Enumeratio Plantarum 
quas adeundo civitatem Barmanorum regiam et dehine redeundo 
Anno mocoxcy observavit Franciscus Buchanan,” occupies 168 folio 
pages and contains 543 names; a | number of the plants are 
described at length, many of them as new; and references are 
made to the plates in the accompanying vo of drawings, wh 
with Hamilton’s description from his MS.; and in the same work 
(i. p. 70) Wallich says of Melhania Hamiltoniana that ‘a specimen 
and drawing of it are preserved in the late Dr. Hamilton’s col- 
lection of Burmese plants at the British Museum.” “es 
It may be well to give a list of the plants figured in Barre 
book with the names now adopted, where these differ; I have add 
