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Something of the same nature in each of the Islands would be desirable, to secure 

 collections there, and to preserve the plants collected, that duplicates, and even tri- 

 plicates might be sent in succession to the Botanical Garden at Calcutta, without 

 which they cannot be expected, *in general, to succeed; but which would secure 

 their naturalization in Bengal if either so useful or beautiful as to make that desir- 

 able; and would greatly promote Bolanical knowledge, by adding to our present ca- 

 talogues the greatest part of the undiscovered riches of the vegetatabie kingdom in 

 the Eastern part of the World. 



In examining the catalogue, several errors in the terminations of the specific 

 names have been detected. These arose from their having been removed from one 

 genus to another, without the requisite change of the Gender being made. The co- 

 py from which the catalogue was printed was made out by a native writer, and these 

 alterations were forgotten. The greatest part of it was printed off before this wm 

 discovered ; these errors therefore, and a few other Typographical ones which have? 

 been observed, the scientific reader is requested to correct 



June 4j 2614* 



W. CAREY. 



