2 CATALOGUE OF NON-HERBACEOUS PHANEROGAMS, 
tematic) part of the present Catalogue these various catalogues 
will ‘be referred :to in more detail. But here it suffices to state that, 
with the-exception of: Roxburgh’s Hortus Bengalensis, Wallich’s 
Manuscript Catalogue and Voigt’s Catalogue they are merely lists of 
_ plant names. without any further information. A mere list of names 
is of course useful inasmuch as it, at least, shows what plants were 
cultivated in the Garden at the time of its publication, but such a list 
gives no help in discovering the situation of any particular species— 
not to mention plant ~in the Garden, nor throws any light on the 
time or source of introduction, while it omits all reference to times of 
flowering, fruiting, habitat and such like facts. 
; ‘the writer’s direction 
on the scale of 50 feet to the inch by Subodh Sen Gupta—formerly of 
_ the Civil Engineering College, Sibpur—during 1907-08, and a lar. ee 
_ of the Garden was finished in the latter year. From this lar : < 
the one accompanying the present list has bee ocr 
Superintendents and Curators of other Gardens j 
tive Gardens, a detailed account of the operations followed in th 
a cae of the present list is given in the hope that it may be 
ound feasible to adopt. i 
en pt the same procedure or some modification 
