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SIR J. D. HOOKER'S “Flora of British India,” of which five volumes out of seven are now printed, marks an era in tropical botany, inasmuch as it will probably contain descriptions, with their synonymy, of half the tropical plants of the Old World. It furnishes, therefore, a broad platform for his successors to build upon. It is not likely that within the bounds of India proper many new plants still remain to be described; but it is not so in the wonderfully rich flora of the Malay peninsula. During the last ten years large collections have been accumulated at Calcutta from this region, gathered mainly by Scortechini and other collectors who have been sent out by the authorities of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. In the present pamphlet, which is reprinted from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Dr. King, the Director of the Calcutta Garden, begins a synopsis of the plants which are indigenous to the British provinces of the Malay peninsula, including the islands of Singapore, Penang, and the Nicobar and Andaman groups.
Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula.
Part I. By Dr. George King, Calcutta. Pp. 50. (Reprinted from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1889, No. 4.)
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B., J. Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. Nature 41, 437 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041437a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/041437a0