PLANTS OF NORTHERN GUJARAT 
BY 
W. T. SAXTON, mi,, i.e.s., i.a.r.o., 
AND 
Ir. J. SEDGWICK, b.a., 
F.L.S., I.C.S. 
PART I. 
DESCRIPTIVE AND ANALYTICAL. 
1. Cooke’s Flora of the Bombay Presidency and the 
Present Work , 
W RITING in 1903 in the preface to his Flora of the Bombay 
Presidency, Cooke remarked : — “It can hardly be expected that 
the present ‘ Flora 9 will be an absolutely exhaustive one, although I have 
every reason to believe tfiat the plants which still remain undiscovered 
are few.” At that time, Gujarat was and indeed until now has remained, 
the least explored part of the Presidency. All the best known collec- 
tors — Law, Stocks, Ritchie, Graham, Dalzell and Gibson, Cooke, 
Prof. Gammie, Woodrow and Mr. Talbot— have worked the Konkan. 
Most of them have worked the Deccan and Karnatak. Stocks 
worked parts of Sind, and Mr. Talbot has very thoroughly worked 
North Kanara. But Gujarat, and especially North Gujarat, has hitherto 
been touched only by flying visits, and whereas the notes on geographical 
distribution within the Presidency of the various species described by 
Cooke are fairly complete for the other regions mentioned above, the 
flora of Gujarat is very inadequately indicated. This can perhaps be 
best demonstrated by citing one or two particular genera. Thus our list 
which follows gives five species of Grewia , only two of which are men- 
tioned by Cooke as occurring in Gujarat. Of Crotalaria (truly wild 
species) we have seven. Of these, only four are mentioned by Cooke 
under Gujarat, and only one from North Gujarat Of Indig of era we 
have seven species, only three of which are mentioned by Cooke from 
Gujarat, and those all from stations in South or Central Gujarat. Of 
