210 Wighl^.s Icones Plantar um India? Orientalis. [Jultt 



Literary In telligence. 



Dr. Wight lias cnmmenced a work, under the title of Icones Plan- 

 TARu:.! Indi.Ii ORiENTALi^, wliich Will Dvove raoi-e useful to the boLKni- 

 cal stndeiit, and tend more to ihe advancement of the Science of Bota- 

 rv, iiian even the excellent llluslrations, now in the coarse of publi- 

 cation. 



Three nnnibers of the Icvnes have appearedp each containing 20- 

 liiliographic illustrations. A number will be published monihly, un- 

 til the autlior has expended all his materials, whdch Pire most ample, 

 for, in addition to liis own hirge collection of drawings and dried spe- 

 cimens, Pr. Wallich has liberally put at his command " the magni- 

 ficent collection of drawings of East Indian Plants f(n'nied by Br. Rox- 

 burgh.'* Thus, in the most convenient and the cheapest form possible^ 

 a botanical work for India will be produced, uniiv;uitd in point of uti- 

 lity, and in a pictorial point of view possessing very considerable me- 

 rit, especially when the disadvantages under whicii Dr. Wight labours- 

 are taken into consideration, and how much more than the proper pro- 

 vince of the author he is obliged to perform himself in the execution 

 ©f tills work. 



The 3d No. sh-nvs a very great improvement in tlie lithographs, 

 over the former ;\vo, many of them being equal to anything of the kind 

 ^n. botanical v.'orks in Europe, and certainly superior to any that have 

 been produced in India. We shall note the issue of this work with 

 very great interest, and shall from time to time acquaint our readers^ 

 with parliculars of its progress. 



