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NATURAL HISTORY. 



The Crypto gamous Plants of Dr. Roxburgh, forming the 

 fourth and last part of the Flora Indica. 



[Published by permission of Government from Dr. Roxburgh's MSS. in the Library of the H. 

 C. Botanic Gardens.] 



The MSS. now printed may be taken as completing* the Flora Indica 

 of Dr. Roxburgh, of which three volumes have already appeared. The 

 matter has been taken from a large folio, arranged, epitome of the Flora 

 Indica, and, so far as was compatible with their imperfect state, from a set 

 of MSS. descriptions of Roxburgh to which the epitome alluded to has 

 numerical references. The foot notes are my own, otherwise the matter 

 is verbatim Roxburgh's, as also is the arrangement. The sketches have 

 been copied in a reduced form from Roxburgh's invaluable series of Bo- 

 tanical Drawings deposited in this Institution, and probably the most 

 authenticand extensive! ever completed by one individual. 



* There does not appear to be any MSS. extant of the other divisions of Cryp- 

 togamia. Drs. "Wight and Arnott in the preface to their Prodromusf state, that of 

 the Flora Indica not only the Ferns are wanting, but also the few species referred by 

 Roxburgh in his Hortus Benghalensis to Polygamia. But this class does not 

 exist in the original MSS. of the Hortus Benghalensis, nor in my copy of that 

 work; the matter proceeding directly from Dicecia to Cryptogamia. 



t They contain 2360 folio sheets, and representations of 2542 species. All which 

 were executed between 1793 and 1814. 



+ Prod Fl. Penins. Ind. Orient, p. 14. 

 VOL. IV. NO. XVI. JANUARY, 1844. 



