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Colony or Settlement somfe Flora, more or* less complete, 
has been published. The adjacent Dutch possessions in 
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Sumatra, Java, &c. have had their plants illustrated. 
often lavishly at the costs of their Governments; but with 
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the exception of the species incorporated in the Flora of 
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British India now being published under the authority of th 
Secretary of India in Council, no attempt has hitherto 
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been made to catalogue even the plants of any one of the 
Straits Settlements, and this though very large collections 
amounting probably to 3000 species of the Flowering Plants 
and Ferns of Perak, Penang, Singapore and Malacca exist in 
the Herbaria of the Botanical Garden of Kew and Calcutta, 
in a state fit for description*. 
I believe that the desired object would be best 
attained by the publication in a portable form, and at a 
moderate price, of a work similar to the Colonial Floras 
hitherto issued under the authority of the various Colonial 
Governments. That should be supplemented by lithographic 
plates of the more interesting, novel or useful plants, 
in a quarto form, following as precedent the illustrations 
of the Victorian Flora, issued under Colonial auspices*by 
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