The Author takes advantage o’f the present opportunity of informing the Subscriber^
to His Illustrations of Indian Botany,; that that work will shortly be resumed, and he trusts conducted
to a satisfactory conclusion without further delay or interruption. Immediately on the
publication of the last part published (Part 1, Vol. 2) he was1 under thé necessity of packing
Up the whole of his collections preparatory to leaving Madras and up to thé present hour,:Y 1st
May; 1844) the greater p'art of them are Unavoidably still in the packing Cases. They are
how however in coUrse of being re'-arranged and so soon as that is done the work will proceed.
He further avails himself of this opportunity to inform the Subscribers to the present
Work, that the next two parts extending to probably 120 plates each, will be almost exclusively
devoted to the illustration of Neilgherry plants, and that he contemplates publishing a few (perhaps
about 100) extra copies’ coloured, under the title of N e ilg h err y P lants.”
The “ Neilgherry Plants” will différ from the Continuation of this work not merely in
being coloured, this remaining uncoloured, but in being made up of selection from the whole
Work, of the handsomest or otherwise most interesting flowers natives of thèse hills, in being
Separately numbered and having a distinct letter-press.
They will, for the most part, be grouped in natural families, accompanied by söme general
observations on alpine vegetation under each family. The sériés of drawings, for the
Succeeding parts being nearly complete, enables him to give a systematic form to this portion
of the present work, as well as to the new one.
The price of the tf N eilgherry P lants” cahnot as yet be fixed, but it is estimated
that it will not exceed 10J Rupees per part of 50 coloured Plates, and that the whole will be
Comprised in 4 or at the very utmost 5 parts.
Subscribers to the N eilgherry P lants are requested to send their names to Mr.
P haroah, the Publisher, who will forward their copies as published.