Straits plants at Calcutta, and whose proximity to the 
Straits Settlements will enable him to refer for inforra- 
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ation to residents there without loss of time. Whilst 
however working in Calcutta, Dr. King would require to be 
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in constant correspondence with a competent Botanist in the 
Herbarium at Kew, which contains the largest and best 
named (indeed the only other) collection of Straits plants 
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in existence. Every species described in the Flora must be 
identified with those previously named at Kew; and' Dr. 
King must be supplied with the means of publishing such 
species as exist at Kew and are not in the Calcutta 
Herbarium. 
II. Illustrations of Straits Settlements Plants. 
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Lithographed illustrations of the plants of the Straits 
eould be well and inexpensively produced at Calcutta under 
the direction of Dr. King; and might be brought out through 
a publisher in the same way as the Flora. It is impossible 
to estimate the cost of such an undertaking; but I am 
confident that a grant of £100 a year to provide for 
artsits work and the purchase of a few coxjies, would be 
well spent as a commencement of such an undertaking. 
