16 Notes on Indian Botany. 



which this plant presented, while naming a figure of it for 

 my Icones, of placing Mr. Law^s name permanently on the 

 records of Botany, by dedicating the genus to him, though, 

 perhaps, less appropriately, than if the plant had been found 

 by himself. 



VOGELIA, Lamark. 



The genus Vogelia, established by Lamark upwards of 50 

 years ago (1792,) was founded on a very indifferent specimen 

 from the Cape of Good Hope. From that time to the pre- 

 sent, the species seems not to have been again discovered by 

 any of the numerous explorers of the flora of that promon- 

 tory, and his figure and description, still remains the only 

 record of its existence ; and, but for the figure given in his 

 illustrations, would, probably, in this time have been supposed 

 a doubtful genus, founded by mistake on some other plant. 

 Under these circumstances, the discovery of a new species in 

 India, cannot but be considered an interesting addition, not 

 merely to our flora, but to the system of plants, as establish- 

 ing, beyond doubt, the correctness of Lamark^ s character. 



It is now I think about two years since Mr. Law sent me, 

 in a letter, a few flowers, received from Dr. Gibson, of what 

 Dr. G. supposed a new species of Plumbago, but which en- 

 abled me, with the aid of Lamark's figure, to identify it as a 

 new species of the long lost Vogelia ; which, in correspondence 

 with Dr. Gibson, I determined, as in the case of the original 

 species, to call after its native country ; a figure of which will 

 very shortly appear in my Icones, under the name of Vogelia 

 Indica, Lamark' s being named V. Africana. The genus 

 being new to India, I have thought it well to notice it, (as 

 well as several other novelties in course of publication in 

 that work,) in the Journal, as having a much wider circu- 

 lation than so costly a work as the Icones can be expected to 

 possess. 



When in course of acting on this resolution, I had the gra- 

 tification of receiving from Mr. J. E. Stokes, of the Bombay 



