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CHAP. XXIII. 
Description of Grains and Roots — Fruits, Trees, Shrubs , 
and Flowers—Botanical List. 
The history of the plants of Madagascar, which have 
at present been described, if given at length, would 
constitute too large a proportion of our work. Seve¬ 
ral botanists have visited the island, some of whom 
have paid for the gratification of their laudable 
curiosity with their lives, owing to the unhealthiness of 
the climate. It being our object to render this work 
as entertaining as possible to the general reader, we 
shall give a description of those plants which appear 
to us most remarkable or useful, with their botanical 
names, as far as we have been able to recognize them; 
and, at the end, give a botanical list of those which 
we have not identified with the former*. 
* As the botanical names were not originally given with the 
former, it is possible that some mistakes may have occurred in 
the annexation referred to. But it may be proper to remark, 
that the list is taken entirely from a work on the plants found at 
the Mauritius, printed a few years since, by order of his Excel¬ 
lency, Governor Farquhar, which we have obtained a sight of, 
at the library of the late Sir Joseph Banks. In this work, 
which contains the names of many hundreds of plants, the 
several countries from which they were originally brought are 
annexed to each. 
