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WHEN, in 1897, Sir Joseph Hooker wrote his preface to the final volume of the “Flora of British India,” he gave it as one of the chief uses of his great work that it would “facilitate the compilation of local Indian floras.” We believe that since that book began to issue, the handbook before us is the first general local flora that has been prepared for India, though various floras for forest purposes only have already appeared. Other general floras, for what are wider areas, are in course of preparation for Bengal, Bombay and the Upper Gangetic Plain; but although these floras will apply to whole provinces, or at any rate to areas as large as provinces, they will, none of them, cover so wide a vertical range, for the late Sir H. Collett's handbook practically treats of plants growing at all altitudes, from the Himalayan valleys only a little raised above sea-level to elevations of 12,000 and even of 16,000 feet. The area taken up is not one of exact geographical limits, but, as the author has said:—
Flora Simlensis: a Handbook of the Flowering Plants of Simla and the Neighbourhood.
By the late Colonel Sir H. Collett Pp. lxviii + 652. (Calcutta and Simla: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker and Co., 1902.)
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G., J. Flora Simlensis: a Handbook of the Flowering Plants of Simla and the Neighbourhood . Nature 67, 170 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067170a0
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