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Atgaon, west of Poona, collected by Mr. R. K. Bhide. I have 
also received dry and spirit material from Sir W. T. Thiselton- 
Dyer, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ; from 
Dr. D. Prain, Superintendent of the Calcutta Gardens ; from 
Mr. T. F. Bourdillon, Conservator of Forests in Travancore ; 
from Prof. Goebel of Munich ; from Miss Gulielma Lister ; 
and others. To all these friends, and to Mr. R. D. Fenton of 
Monica (Anamalais), Capt. D, Herbert, Deputy Commis- 
sioner of the Khasia and Jaintia Hills, the Rev. P. Decoly, 
Mr. F. Lewis, Mr, J. Parkin, Mr. H. F. Macmillan, and 
others, I am very greatly indebted. 
Type sets of material-herbarium specimens, and in some 
cases also specimens dried on the rocks on which they grew, 
or preserved in alcohol — are being distributed to the follow- 
ing great herbaria and museums:— Kew, British Museum, 
Cambridge, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, 
Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, Rome, Washington, Harvard, 
Rio de Janeiro, Calcutta, Saharanpur, Poona, Ootacamund, 
Singapore, Buitenzorg, Tokio, Durban, Sydney. A complete 
illustrative set of type specimens and material (much more 
complete than any of the distributed sets) is preserved at 
Peradeniya. 
It will be convenient to sum up here the work that has 
already been published upon the Indian and Ceylon Podos- 
temaceæ. The first species was discovered by Gomez in the 
mountains of Sylhet (probably the Khasias), and enumerated 
as No. 5,225 in Wallich’s Catalogue (1828) as Podostemon 
Wallichii, R. Br. This species was again found near Cherra 
Punji in the Khasia mountains by Griffith in 1835, and he 
also discovered another species in a tributary of the Bogapani 
in the same district—P. Griffithii, Wall. MSS. Both these 
were described by him.* After an interval of ten years, my 
predecessor, Gardner, in company with Wight, collected 
several species in the Nilgiri mountains, to which Gardner 
* Description of two species of Podostemon ... Asiatic Re- 
searches, XX., 103. 
