JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Vol. LXVI. Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE 



No. II.— 1897. 



NovicifB Indicae XV. Some additional Leguminosa?. —By D. Pratn. 

 [Bead February 3rd, 1897.] 



The present paper contains descriptions of species that are new to 

 India in the sense that they are not included in the account of this Order 

 prepared in 1876 by Mr. J. Gr. Baker, P.R.S., the distinguished Keeper 

 of the Herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew, for Sir Joseph Hooker's Flora 

 of British India, Vol. II. Some of the species are new to science or at 

 all events are not to be traced in any of the works in the library of the 

 Calcutta garden and are not provided with names either in the Calcutta 

 Herbarium or in that at Kew. Others are species already described 

 elsewhere but not included in the Flora of British India because they 

 had not been reported from within the limits of the Indian Empire up 

 to the time when Mr. Baker's account of the Leguminosse was being 

 prepared. And in order that these contributions may preserve the 

 character of being in substance, as well as in form, supplementary to 

 the Flora, definitions of species of both kinds have been given in the 

 hope that they may prove helpful to members of our Society who use the 

 Flora itself in the field. 



In the Flora of British India Mr. Baker has indicated points that 

 were doubtful to him and has urged the attention of Indian botanists 

 to these points, in the hope that the difficulties may be removed by the 

 supply of more adequate material. Some of these difficulties it has 

 been possible from the possession of more recent and more adequate 

 suites of specimens to satisfactorily settle ; naturally, too, the more 

 ample material at our disposal now, has indicated other difficulties where 

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