ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 5 
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species or plant have failed because either any record that may have 
existed has been lost or is hidden in a huge mass of unindexed 
manuscript. The writer has therefore adopted a system which it is 
hoped will make it less of a task for future officers of the Garden 
to discover what information is already available regarding any plant or 
Species and to add to that information, The system adopted is the 
one advocated by Dr. J. C. Willis, Director of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon, in his paper “ Studies in the Organization 
of a Botanical Department? (Aun. Roy. Bot. Gard. Peradeniya, iié, 
Pt. 1,p. 83.) 
Each numbered plant is provided with a Life-history Sheet. . This is 
a double sheet of foolscap-size paper which when folded once gives 4 
pages each 34°3 cm. (13}”) long and 215 cm. (84”) broad. _ The 
following is a reduced reproduction of the first page of an actual 
sheet :— 
_CAT. HORT. BOT, REG. CALCUTTENSIS, 1909. 
initialled) and dated, 
NO. & SQ. 239 (B 7). 
ORDER & Namg. Nyctagineae. 
, Bougainvillaea spectabilis Wi//d. 
Source and History.—From Garden stock, planted in 
1906. Climbing on Casuarina equisetifolia No. 238 and 
flowering freely since 1909. 
A. T. Gace, 
The 3rd March £910. 
: For the Majority of the plants already in the Garden little informa- 
tion is easily accessible regarding source or history, but there should 
be less chance of /acunz *n recording future accessions, 
