154 
Bentham and Hooker’s * Genera Plantarum” ‘and the Indian and 
various Colonial * Floras" have influenced the EAR of elementary 
works, yet several others are equally as good, and might answer the 
purpose just as we 
Relatively more space has been devoted to remote islands and little 
known regions, because the ipsia accounts of their vegetation are 
often in serials only met with in large libraries. 
Persons wishing for further information have only to consult the 
works cited, where they will usually find jefe to all the books 
Taking British India as an example, it would have 
of the officers of the Indian and Colonial Forest Dep ts h not 
been included, though they often contain valuable m tter, and s , a8 
well as the consular reports, be searched by persons in quest of infor- 
mation on the vegetable produetions of a country. 
The Handbooks of the various Colonies prepared for the Indian and 
Colonial Exhibition in London in 1886 bear v contain useful information 
on the vegetable products, 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
1. Elementary, Apes and other ee ofa geo — - 155 
2. Great Brita rela: 156 
3. Channel Islands per Mediterranean > - : - - 5.156 
4. Continental Africa - - - E - 158 
5. So iit Islands - 159 
6. Ascension, St. Helena, Tristan da Taka Falklands, and ‘South Georgi - - 160 
7. Aden oan Perim, and other islands of the Red Sea and Arabian 
Coast 162 
8. "RR, Rodrigues Seychelles, Amsterdam, and other Islands of the 
cean 163 
$. British I India, exclusive of Islands 166 
10. Ceylon, I , Maldives, Andaman 5; Mictini Straits Settlements, 
: Keeling e Christmas — British North Borneo, ere 
and Port cem 169 
11. Australia, Tas a, New Zeeland, New Guinea, and Norfolk Island, 
and = ‘smaller neighbouring islands 172 
12. Polynesi: - - =~ 179 
13. The Danii ob eanie and Ne wivendias 181 
14. mp iere British West — UM Bermudas, British Guiana, and | British 
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