P R E F A C E .
THE present volume of the Annals of the lloyal Botanic Garden, Calcutta,
consists of two parts. The first part contains descriptions of one hundred and one
species of Indian Orchids br Sir J. D. Hooker, late Director of the Eoyal Garden,
Kew, who generously agreed to their publication here. The second consists of descriptions
of critical Indian species of Eammadacm by Mr. Taul Briihl, of the Bengal
Educational Service, and of an account by myself of eighty-three species of new and
httle-knowu Indo-Malayan plants—mostly Thalamifloral. A figure is given of each
species described in both parts.
G. KING.
