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 views of distribution — Maiiy well-known Em-opean plants have 

 other names in the Indian Floras — Instances from Saiiuiiculacea' . 38 

 ■/ Range of Himalayan species in altitude, and of some of these and 

 others in longitude, from Eiu-ope to the Chinese Sea — Illustrations 

 by parallel instances of distribution in Europe and North Asia, etc. 39 



Principles upon wliich the study of geographical chstribution depends 39 



Specific centres — Our own opinion regarding them — Dispersion not 

 altogether attributable to causes now in operation — Effects of geo- 

 logical change — Lyell's and Forbes' views — Apphoation of them to 

 Indian Flora — Migration between India and Java — Effects of 

 winds, animals, and oceanic cui'reuts — Dean Herbert's views of 

 the effect of the preoccupation of the soil .... 41 



Application of these principles — Uncertainty of effects of reproduc- 

 tion — Principles adopted by om-selves in the 'Flora Indica' in re- 

 ducing species — In adopting a system of nomenclatiu'e . 43 



Rejection of native names for species — Follow general plan of Wight 

 and Ai'nott's 'Prodromus' . . . . . 44 



IV. SUMMAEY OF Labotjes 0¥ Indian Botahists 45 



A. Publications of importance. 



' Hortus Malrtbaricus' — Rheede — Rumphius' ' Herbarium Amboinense' 

 — Hermann — Bm-mann's 'Thesaurus' — Lumssus' 'Floi'aZeylanica' 

 — Loureho's 'Flora Coehinchinensis' — his hfe and travels . 46 



Roxburgh's ' Flora Indica' — Wallich's ' Plantse AsiaticEC Rariores' — 

 his work on Nipal plants — Roxburgh's Coromandel plants . . 48 



Dr. Jack — Wight and Arnott's 'Px'odronms' . . . . .47 



Wight's ' Contributions to the Botany of India,' and ' Illustrations of 

 Indian Botany' — ' Icones Plantariim IndisB Orientahs ' — ' Spici- 

 Icgium Neilgherrense' , . 49 



Mr. Bentham's labours . , . . 50 



De Candolle's 'Prodromus' — Boyle's 'Illustrations of the Botany of 

 the Himalaya' . . . . . 51 



Decaisne and Cambessfedes' plants of Jacquemont'sVoyage — Grraharu's 

 catalogue of Bombay plants . . . .52 



Moon's catalogue of Ceylon plants — Voigt's 'Hortus Suburbanus 

 Caleuttenais' — Lindley's ' Genera and Species Orchidearum' — his 

 other labours — ' Foha Orchidacea' . . . 53 



Horsfield's labours — Browii and Bennett's 'Plantte Javauicse Rariores' 

 — Blume's 'Bijchagen' . . 54 



'Flora .Iav£E' — 'Rumphia' — ' ilusoum Botanioum' — Korthals' 

 ' Kruidkunde' — Miquel's monograph of Piperacece and Fid . 55 



Dc Vvicsc's works — Hasskarl's 'Hortus Bogoriensis' — Presl's 'Reli- 

 cpiiiu Hajukiauce' — Blanco's 'Flora de las Filipinas' — Ledebour's 

 ' l?lora Rossica,' 'Flora Altaica' . . . 56 



Other Russian botanists — Boissier's 'Diagnoses' — European Floras 57 



American works . . sg 



