vi BOTANY OF BIHAR AND OSISSA. 



Kew, where I have had the opportunity of consulting them, though 

 want of time prevented my going through ilinn systematically until 

 I had nearly completed the Flora. A complete set of Hamilton's 

 collections from I Si (7-1 8 1 4 arc said to be represented in the Herbarium, 

 but this seems scarcely credible, as. w itli tic exception of the Monghyr 

 district and the country around Nathpur, the flora of the Bihar and 

 Orissa districts is poorly represented, and of numerous plants alluded 

 to in the manuscripts there are often no specimens.* The results, 

 therefore, of this examination have been disappointing. They 



arein the'lndia'offioe Library, but 'interestingas they m the plants 

 mentioned are for the most part under their vernacular names. 

 Occasionally the in, or they are referred to the 



species described in Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus, or other data are 

 given which sufficiently determine the species. But as the value of 

 a provincial flora is greatly discounted by b< 

 t thought t' 



The important collectio 



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f Chota Nagpur, and I have not been able further to visit it, though 

 lany duplicates of Campbell's in the Kew and Calcutta Herbaria 



iir J. D. Hooker. Hooker entered it at the boundary of Burdwan 

 nd Manbhum, and marched along the Grand Trunk Road, ascending 

 •arasnath en route, through parts of Manbhum, Ha/.aribaidi and 

 Jaya to the Sone. He then passed over the Kymore Bills (Sh ah a hail 

 iistrict) and dropped down the Ganges to Caragola ghat (in a boat, 

 o that very few specimens are available from this part of t he route). 

 |e then proceeded through Purneah, leaving the province at Titalyah, 

 or his celebrated Himalayan tour. The collections of Kurz were 

 nade chiefly along the Ganges and in Behar— an unfortunately 

 ague term which has been used in various senses, and used to 

 nclude the northern half of Chota Nagpur as well as most of 

 . Chota Nagpur and the Ganges, a 



