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Excerpt from The Flora of the Presidency of Bombay, Vol. 1 The necessity for "local" or "regional" Floras to supplement Sir Joseph Hooker's great work, 'The Flora of British India,' which deals with several thousand species of plants drawn from a very wide area and grown under diverse climatic conditions, has been fully recognized by the highest botanical authorities. The inauguration of the Botanical Survey of India and the subdivision of the great Indian continent into regions each forming a branch of the Survey, under the general supervision of Major Prain, I.M.S., Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, has secured the collection of sufficient material to warrant the preparation of regional Floras for certain portions of the entire area. On the extension of the Survey to the Western Presidency, I was appointed by the Government of Bombay Honorary Director of the Botanical Survey of Western India, with Mr. G. M. Woodrow as Assistant; and I was further allowed the services of a paid Herbarium-keeper, a few native plant-collectors, and a small annual grant to provide for travelling-allowances and other incidental expenses. A Herbarium was established at the College of Science at Poona, of which I was at that time Principal, and a real advance was soon made in our knowledge of the botany of the Bombay Presidency. Since my retirement, after 30 years' actual residence in India, I have been selected by the Government of Bombay to carry out this, the first of a series of regional Floras projected by the Director of the Survey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.