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Then comes the tremendous family of Leguminosae, and how are 

 we to determine the old Hedysareae, when one botanist gives 10 

 names to one species, and another botanist allows but one name 

 to 10 species. Of this family I have given 130 species, some of the 

 names I know to be correct, but some are doubtful. 



Of the Anacardeae and Cupiliferae there are some good specimens, 

 but I have not been able to determine the different species of Rhus 

 and Quercus. 



One plant which I found on the Naga hills, I have marked as 

 a species of Betula, but it being so much like a plant at the gardens 

 called Balsamodendron Roxburghii, makes me apprehend I may be 

 mistaken. 



In Urticeae there is a variety of nettles and figs, but I am not 

 aware that any of them are new, though I could not recognize them 

 by Roxburgh's descriptions, and I had no other to refer to. When 

 at Seebsagur, I had access to Rees' Clyclopsedia, but unless I already 

 knew the genus to which my specimen belonged, that work was of no 

 use to me. 



Of Polygoneae, I have numbered 30, and there may be even more 

 among the Duplicates : one specimen I have called P. fragrans, and 

 have frequently sent seeds to the gardens. On the 5th April 1844, 

 I sent a description of it to Dr. Griffith, for the Journal, but I heard 

 no more of it afterwards, perhaps he did not think it sufficiently 

 correct. 



Myrsineae is almost a dead letter to me. I am more at home in 

 Cinchoneae, and you will find some fine specimens of Mussaenda. One 

 I have called M. scandens, is a very powerful climber, and the white 

 calycine leaves make it very conspicuous when running over the tops of 

 high trees ; it is not in Roxb. nor in W. and A. Another Mussaenda, 

 or an allied genus, is a most elegant shrub which I found growing out 

 of a perpendicular clift up the Soondree. Of Compositae, you will 

 find 70 or 80, the most interesting are Nos. 1028 — 1382 and in my 

 plants of the Naga hills, As. Jour. No. 479. By the bye I have no 

 copy of that paper, and I suppose it is too late now to procure one. 



Verbenacae affords a variety of Callicarpa and Clerodendron. 



I had several Cyrtandracae, but I fear they will be of no use, having 

 all fallen to pieces, and when I found them I had no time to make 



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