PUGILLUS PLANTARUM INDIAE ORIENTALIS. 



When Dr. Wight and I published the first volume of our Pro- 

 dromus florae Peninsulae Indiae orientalis, we confined ourselves to 

 those plants which were either natives of the Peninsula, orhadbeen 

 discovered by the Missionaries, but whether in the Peninsula or in 

 Ceylon, was to us somewhat doubtful. The specimens of the latter 

 were usually very imperfect. Of these, however, I have since the 

 publication of that work, seen more complete materials, in a rich col- 

 lection of plants made in Ceylon within these fevv years by the exer- 

 tions of Colonel Walker, secretary to the Governor of that island, 

 and his Lady, and transmitted by them to my friends Dr. Hooker, 

 and Dr. Graham, Professors of Botany, the former at Glasgow, the 

 latter in Edinbourgh. 



While examining these I observed many new species which 

 I trust will, ere long, be published by Dr. Hooker in his „Compa- 

 nion to the Botanical Magazine"; but I have in the mean time drawn 

 up the specific characters of a few, most of which are so intimately con- 

 nected with the Floraof the South of thePeninsula, that I confidently 

 expect that they will be soon found there by my active and persevering 

 friend Dr. Wight. These specific characters, with such observations 

 or corrections upon plants already described , particularly on those in 

 our Prodromus, as may be necessary for their farther elucidation, form 

 the subject of the following memoir. 



Arlary (Scotland). 



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