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Burmann, in his Thesaurus Zeylanicus, 1737, has given descrip- 

 tions and figures of many Asiatic and some Indian plants. 



Rumph came as physician to the East Indies, and became Chief 

 Magistrate and President of the Mercantile Association of Amboyna ; 

 he collected carefully all the productions of India, especially plants. 

 These are described and figured in his work, Herbarium Amboinensc, 

 1750 — 1755, in six volumes, folio, with a supplementary or 7th volume 

 bound up with the 6th. The descriptions are in Latin and Dutch, in 

 separate columns, and the figures are extremely good. 



N. J. Burmann, son of John Burmann, was Professor of Botany at 

 Amsterdam. In his Flora Indica, 1768, he has represented in 67 plates, 

 176 very scarce plants, which had been collected by his father. 



Rottler, Professor of Botany, at Copenhagen, has given excellent 

 figures and descriptions of many of the Indian Cyperacea*. This 

 work is in folio, published in 1773, with 21 plates. 



Retzius, Professor of Botany at Lund in Sweden, published in six 

 Fasciculi, from 1779 to 1791, in folio, with 19 plates, many Indian 

 plants discovered by travellers, particularly Koenig, who visited both 

 the Coromandel and Malabar coasts, as well as Ceylon and Siam. 



Thunberg, in his Flora Japanica, has given descriptions and figures 

 of many of the plants of Japan, several of which, or nearly allied 

 species, are to be found in the Himalayan mountains. 



Though not strictly Indian botanists, it is sometimes useful to refer 

 to those who have written on the botany of neighbouring countries, 

 especially Asiatic ; and among the most useful of them may be mentioned 

 the work of Forskal, on the plants which he found when travelling with 

 Niebuhr, in Arabia. The Indian reader will be surprised to find so 

 many names with which he is familiar : the Arabic names being given 

 both in the English and the Arabic character, and without doubt intro- 

 duced by the Mahomedan conquerors into India. Fr. Hosselquish 

 travelled as a botanist in Syria ; Olivier and Michaux in Persia, and 

 Pallas in Siberia. Loureiro, a Portuguese, went as Missionary to 

 Cochin China, but as he could not without medicine succeed in his 

 plans, he studied the productions of the vegetable kingdom. The 

 Flora Cochin-chinensis, edited by Wildenow, contains descriptions and 

 plates of the plants he found in that country. Sonnerat died in 1813, 

 after having employed 20 years in his travels ; he visited the isles of 

 France and Bourbon, Madagascar, the Phillipines, Moluccas, New 

 Guinea, the Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel in India, Ceylon and 

 China. Many of his plants are described by Lamarck in his invaluable 

 Encyclopedic de Botanique. 



