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To the Honorable the Court of Directors of the East India Company
In obedience to an intimation receivd by me when the Court did me the honor to place in my hands the drawings & descriptions of Plants natives of the Companies Territories in India sent home to them by their Botanist Dr. Roxburgh, I have the honor to present the Following Plan for their Publication under the patronage of the Court of Directors & at the expence of the India Company
I am happy in being able to promise that the skill with which the drawings are made (the work of Indian artists), the accuracy with which the parts illustrative of the sexual system are delineated, the intelligence with which interesting views of these parts are selected & the Patience & detail with which the descriptions are drawn up, do great honor to the abilities of Dr. Roxburgh & will I am confident give more satisfaction to the Botanists of Europe than either the Hortus Malabaricus or the Herbarium Amboinense the two books already published which in their Plan bear the nearest resemblance to Dr. Roxburgh's undertaking, have done, tho the Former of them now sells for more than 5 times the original Price
As a specimen of the mode of