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1803


List of Roots <etc?> from Dr Roxburgh1 Rec[eive]d <fo?> favour of Sir Joseph Banks2 K.B. Probably[?]  a third part of a Box  [illeg]18033 Mr Greville4 having one, Mr Lambert5 the 2d share & Kew the latter division.


1. Cucumia longa
2. {line}       Zeevaria
3. {line}       Zerumbet
4. Amomum Pseudo zingiber
5. {line}        Hipulaceum
6. Costus Speciosus 
7. Kampheria galanga
8. {line}           rotunea 
9. {line}           angustifolia
10. Gloriosa superba 
11. Limoeorum nutans 
12. Amomum zingiber
13. Arum orinensis
14. Panciatium sp. uncertain
15. Crinum a[?]um
16. Arum bulbiferum
17. {line}  Manehy cauca
18. Arethusa plicata in paper
19. Dioscoria anguina in paper
20. {line}        globosa
21. {line}        aculeata in paper
22. {line}        glabra
23. {line}        rubella
24. {line}        alata
25. {line}        phett alloo
26. Nymphea rubra6 
27. {line}        lotus
28. {line}        Caerulea
29. Arum macrophyllum
30. Amaryllis latifolia
31. Meniapurmum tricusfoidatun
32. {line}           verrucosum without number
33. Ambrosina ciliata, in a paper
34. Aponogeton monoslanyon  do7 
35. {line}              undulatum      do
36. Euphorbia trigana
37. {line}         lactea



Amongst the sand are the Roots sands 8 of
a  Calophyllum inophyllum
b  Sophora tomentosa
c  Hibiscus gangeticus [gigantus]
d  Nelumbium the large double white
e  Nymphaea rubra lotus caerulea
f   Trapa bispinosa
g   Sagittaria sp. Uncertain
h   Pistia Stratiotes [water lettuce]
i    Stratiotes alismaides [alloides]
k   Ovida verticillata
l    Clrcea[?] catichu [Areca catechu]
m  Crinum zeylanicum, the bulb like seeds of this Habely species
n   Diospyros cordifolia
o   Gloriosa Superba
p   Hibiscus esculentus
q   Ambrosinia ciliata
r    Colebrookia bulbifera
s   Teak
t    Menyanthes cristata
u   Suquerus Rumphii




1 Roxburgh, William, Dr, 1751 - 1815, surgeon and botanist working in India
2 Banks, Sir Joseph, 1st Baronet, 1743 - 1820, naturalist and patron of science
3 [illeg] 1803 in margin
4 Greville, Charles Francis, 2nd son 1st Earl of Warwick, 1749 - 1809, antiquarian, collector and politician
5 Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, 1761 - 1842, botanist and fellow of Linnean Society
6 Lines 26-28 enclosed in { } brackets
7 Lines 34-35 enclosed in { } brackets
8 Sands crossed out and Roots written in later hand