PREFACE, 
The following papers originally appeared in the Journal of tho 
Asiatic Society of Bengal. For the convenience of botanists interested 
in the Flora of the region of which they treat, I hud some spare copies 
of each printed off as it appeared, with the pages of all continuously 
numbered in the lower comer. As the whole of the Thalami floral 
orders (in the sense of the Genera Plantarum of Messrs. Bentham and 
Hooker) hare now been finished, I think it may be an additional con- 
venience to publish an index to the species described under these 
orders. It will be observed that each page bears two numbers. Tho 
one at the top of tho page is that of the volume of the Journal in 
which the paper originally appeared, and it is not noted in this index : 
it may, however, be used by any writer quoting these papers. The 
second number — the one at tlie bottom of the page — is the one used in 
the index. 
The dates of the original publication of the five papers which 
cover the ThalamiJIorm are as follows : — 
No. 1 
3rd July, 
1889. 
„ 2 
5th February, 
ism 
„ 3 
1st April, 
18<»1. 
« 4 
13th June, 
1892. 
„ 5 
7th June, 
1893. 
I may mention that the first paper contains no plants of the 
Andaman or Nicobar Islands ; for it was not part of my original 
scheme to include, within the area treated of, any of the islands except 
those which, like Penang and Singapore, lie close to the coasts of the 
Peninsula. Subsequently, however, I decided, as a matter of conve- 
nience, to include the Andaman and Nicobar groups, although tho 
Flora of the Andaman* is in character more Burmese than Malayan. 
I propose, as leisure permits, to continue tho publication of these 
papers in the Journal of the same Society ; and, as each great group is 
finished, to supply an index of the species included in it. 
In a Monograph of the Indo- Malayan species of Anonacea?, publish- 
ed in tho Annals of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta since the paper 
