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Descriptions of several of the JWonandrotts Plants of 

 India, belonging to the natural order called Scitami- 

 nese by Linn^eus^ Caim^ by Jussieu^ and Drimyrhizse 



hy Ventenat. 



By W. ROXBURGH, M. D. 



_l_ HE venerable founder of the Society, the late Sir William Jones, 

 justly observes, when describing one of his favourite plants, Bhu'cham- 

 PACA, Asiatick Researches, 4. 243» 



" Among all the natural orders, there is none, in which the genera 

 " seem less precisely ascertained by clear essejitial characters, than in that, 

 " which (for want of a better denomination,) has been called Scitami- 

 *' neons; and the judicious Retz, after confessing himself rather dissatis- 

 " lied with his own generick arrangement, which he takes from the border 

 " of the carol, from the stamen, and principally from the anther, declares 

 " his fixed opinion that " the genera in this order will never be determined 



