JiO DESCRIPTIONS OF 



Edwaisd GardnsEs of whofe invaluable botanical communications 

 I bave already had feveral ■€K:cafions to f peak ^beforc this learned. 

 Society. It is owing to the readj and moft liberal compliance of 

 trhat Gentleman with my wifliesihat I have been enabled to fendl 

 two of my people to Napaulf under the fandion of Government^ 

 for the exprefs purpofe of calledling plants, feeds and prcferving 

 fpecimens for the Honorable Company's Botanic Garden at Cal- 

 cutta; snd it is to the proteftion and rffj fiance he has invariably 

 granted to them in their excariions in that novel country, as well 

 as to his own individual rcfearc* e^, that I have to attribute th® 

 frequent and extcnfive add tions which fmce September iSi-j 

 have almoft daily been m^de to the riches of this inditutions farm- 

 ing a memorable and important ^^ain its annalso Among the 

 many ufeful and ornamental vegetable produS;ions thus receivedo 

 this new and dilHn6l fpecies of Daphne Hands foremoll, I am 

 informed it grows to be a large flirub and ig cultivated estcn« 

 lively about Kat7uandUf both oo account of its beauty and per« 

 fumCj and alfo on account of the uiilitv of it§ bark, affording a 

 material of which a fuperior fort of paper is made in NupmL 

 The proccfs of this manufadory, as well as the efTcntial qualities 

 ©f the p.'per, of which I have the fatisfa8ion to prefcnt muftcrg 

 ijo the Scciety, does not differ from thofe of the other fpecies, 



Andromeda lanceolata* WalL 



Fruticofa, racemis terminalibus bafi foliofis fecundis brevibus fimpli«^ 

 cibus, coroilis fuLovati% fi^amentis ciiiatis apice fagittatis, antberis 



mnxSch biporis, foliis lanceclatis utrinque acctis integerrimisj fub- 

 tus puberulis. 



Habitac in montofis Eengalae orientalis ubi floret miio axinl 

 Komen Kbafianum KaUia-atMnga, 



