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“...PLANTS
of the
COAST OF COROMANDEL;
selected from
DRAWINGS AND DESCRIPTIONS
presented to
THE HON. COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE
EAST INDIA COMPANY.
BY
WILLIAM ROXBURGH, M.D.
published, by their order, under the direction
OF
SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART.
p. r. s.
VOL. I.
london:
printed by w. bulmer and co.
for george nicol, bookseller to his majesty,
PALL-MALL.
1795....”
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“...PREFACE.
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The present Fasciculus of Plants growing on the Coast of Coromandel, being the first of a.progressive
work, with which the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company has determined to
favour the public, it is hoped, will prove as acceptable to the lovers of Botany in general, as useful
at the Company's establishments abroad.
It is intended that the selection should be made from five hundred drawings and descriptions, pre-
sented to the Honourable Court of Directors by Dr. William Roxburgh, one of the Company's medical
servants, and their Botanist in the Carnatic; and, with a more immediate view to utility, while
preference will be given to subjects connected either with medicine, the arts, cy: manufactures, the
liberality o.f the# Jdonourable Court of Directors encourages the admission of new plants, or of such
as have hitherto been imperfectly described, although their qualities and uses may as yet remain
unexplored.
After all that has been already done, India still...”
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“...PREFACE
The present Fasciculus of Plants growing on the Coast of Coromandel, being the first of a.progressive
work, with which the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company has determined to
favour the public, it is hoped, will prove as acceptable to the lovers of Botany in general, as useful
at the Company's establishments abroad.
It is intended that the selection should be made from five hundred drawings and descriptions, pre-
sented to the Honourable Court of Directors by Dr. William Roxburgh, one of the Company's medical
servants, and their Botanist in the Carnatic; and, with a more immediate view to utility, while
preference will be given to subjects connected either with medicine, the arts, qr manufactures, the
liberality o/the# JHonourable Court of Directors encourages the admission of new plants, or of such
as have hitherto been imperfectly described, although their qualities and uses may as yet remain
unexplored.
After all that has been already done, India still presents...”
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“...is a small biennial, rarely triennial plant, it grows in very
light dry sandy ground near the sea. Flowers during the latter part
of the wet season ; seed ripe in January .
Itris much cultivated on the coast of Coromandel, and grows best
in the purest and lightest sand, there its roots descend to a great
depth. Cattle are penned upon the ground for some time before it
is sown, to manure it, or some other manure employed, generally
the lightest; it is then'cleared of weeds, and its surface made level,
if not so before. The seeds are mixed with much sand, and sown as
soon as the rains begin in June or July (that is in the Circars); the
sand is mixed with the seed to enable 'the sower to sow it suffi-
ciently thin; it requires to be often watered if showers are not fre-
quent, till the plants are about two or three inches high. The first
watering is peculiar; some fresh cow-dung is mixed with the water,
the chief object of which is to give the sand at the surface some de-
gree of adhesion,...”
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