PEEFACE. 



The present volume completes the enumeration of the 

 Phanerogamic Flora of India. The Author would have 

 felt more satisfied if some Orders, especially the Grasses, 

 had been less incomplete ; but these have imfortunately 

 not received hitherto that attention which their importance 

 deserves. With such materials, however, as are available 

 the best compilation has been made, and if this work 

 should prove usefiil, in however slight a degree, in aiding 

 the future researches of the Indian Botanist, the Author 

 will feel that the labour of seven years has not been 

 entirely thrown away. 



March ith, 1869. 



