8 CATALOGUE OF NON-HERBACEOUS PHANEROGAMS. 
copies of the list printed on one side of the paper will allow of special 
files of the list, arranged in the orders of the squares, being preserved 
in the office of the Superintendent and Curator of the Garden, respec- 
tively. = 
The system is simple and should be effective, but it is not auto- — 
matic and its ultimate success will depend onand be atest of the in- 
terest of present and future officers of the Garden in their immediate 
work. The writer, however, is confident that the introduction of the 
system will be found to have been justified. 
Every one of the plants indicated by the numbers in the list has been 
collected and carefully examined by the writer but every plant is not 
named, In any instance in which there has been insufficient material 
to make specific identification certain, the writer has given the genus 
only, where it has been possible to be sure of it, or has left a blank. 
It was deemed essential to whatever value the list may have that 
there should be no doubt of what is believed to be correct and what 
is uncertain. The rigid maintenance of this censorship has meant 
a good many blanks in the list at present, but an indication of what 
is not known may be not much less useful than a statement of what 
is known and the blanks should serve as signals for the attention of 
Garden officers and scientific visitors: Sufficient space is left for 
each blank to be filled in in manuscript at any future time. Although 
every name given is believed by the writer to be correct he is no less ~ 
fallible than most’ men and it is not at all improbable that a fair 
number of misidentifications may be detected by those who use this 
list. The writer would be under much obligation to anyone who. 
would bring such misidentifications to his notice. The right half of 
each page is left blank to allow all errors being recorded or corrected. 
The first part of the Catalogue is merely an index and the real 
“stock account” of the Garden will appear in the second or syste- 
matic part. Still it is hoped that even the index will be an aid both to 
Garden officers and visitors interested in tropical vegetation by which 
they may find the Garden somewhat less of a ‘Strange forest than 
hitherto. 
As the primary object of this list as far as the Indian species are 
concerned is to facilitate recognition of living plants by those 
accustomed to the use of Hooker’ : 
Teon, the generic names are 
recent fashion, but this 
and possibly all the more, of 
the Index Kewensis has been 
throughout, sett 
