textile, gum, dye-stuff, timber, etc. The. Malay name, when 
positively known only, should be added. The sequence of 
order and genera adopted in the other Colonial Floras 
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should^be followed, £o that, should an unforeseen event 
delay the work, what had been prepared or published would 
be t ,.complete In itself. 
Experience of other Colonial Floras has proved that 
the best method of procedure, in regard to publication, is 
to arrange with a publisher for the production of the work, 
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he receiving the MSS . free of all charge from the author. 
and undertaking the whole cost of printing paper, binding, 
advertisements, issue and sales of copies. In this case 
the Government pays the author; and to ensure .the publisher 
against loss (and to enable the work to be produced at a 
moderate price), the Government also takes on the day of 
publication 100 copies at retail price for the use of the 
Colony and the publisher sells the rest for his own profit. 
The Botanist best qualified for the authorship is 
unquestionably Dr. King (Superintendent of the Calcutta 
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Botanic Garden) whose knowledge of the Straits Flora is 
very large, who has an ample Library and Herbarium of 
