PREFACE. 



being available 



the Flora, otherw 



it might be observed that the word •• < hissa '" as use 

 does not necessarily refer to the Orissa as at preset 

 term as used by Hooker and Roxburgh included all 



liodav en. and it appears in a few cases to have been used in this wider 

 -;ense in llm.gul Plants, some of ihr specimens recorded as being from 

 Orissa having been collected by Cleghorn and others south of the 

 present political boundary. Gamble and Wood, who colleele.l in ( 'hota 

 Nagpur, Lace, who collected in ,.<; r ifiiih in Sam- 



balpur, Hieronymu* in Clin | nan, >ml the Rev. Father Cardon, who 

 collected orchids in Chota Nagpur, are amonir other botanists whose 

 collections from our province are represented to a smaller extent in 

 the herbaria at Kew and Calcutta. There are also a few specimens 

 collected In Thomson. \„d . .,11. number 



of specimens, chiefly grasses, were collected by Nusker and Mokim— 

 collectors sent on; , , l)r f the Botanical Survey. 



These were chiefly from the Santa! Parganas, Monghyr and Gaya. 

 U it), the exception of Gamble and Lace, and to some extent Hamilton, 

 more cultivated ; , ,;'„„ i,,',. ltil>ll 



Camping where- •. ' an d w hen the 



evening's office work would permit, walking out again after the 

 labours of the day with a rifle as sole companion, his opportunities 

 f " r nature stud . to those of most 



of his predecessors in the lm: r0 is scarcely an 



indigenous species of tree or shrub described i„ the Flora which he 

 has not personally noted in its own habitat. On the other hand the 

 writer's herbarium is exceeding delieieni in the flora of the open 

 country and in that of the : || as in epiphytic 



i r< hi i-.tl. collection of which entailed more time than could begiven. 

 author has < 



1 all the Government f 



J short periods of leave, the forests of Champaran, a 

 small part of Shall , of Purneah and 



the Mahanadi delta. Before leaving India 



i < aleutta. 

 Adverting shortly to the seh 

 Flora, for the convenience of 1 

 systematic works, the Genera Plantarum 



i sequence of the families of the Angiosperms. 



classification, supposedly 

 larger groups as well as a 



I Forest 



i found 



e family of a 



