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**[http://apps.kew.org/floraindica/home.do Roxburgh's ''Flora Indica'']. This web site brings together [[Botanists and naturalists|William Roxburgh]]'s three-volume text-only ''Flora Indica'' published posthumously in 1832, with the illustrations he commissioned of most of the plants he described. Kew Gardens
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Aa9WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Indian Hand-book of Gardening; Containing Directions for the Management of the Kitchen and Flower Garden etc in India. To which is added, an Hindoostanee and English Vocabulary of horticultural and agricultural terms''] by G Y Frederic Speede 1840 Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Aa9WAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 Vocabulary], following page 284.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Sa1WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''A Manual of Gardening for Western India''] by R Riddell 2nd edition revised.1848. Google Books
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xa5WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''A Manual of Gardening for Western and Southern India''] by Robert Riddell 2nd Edition 1856 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7522/mode/2up ''Firmingerʼs Manual of Gardening for India''] 8th edition 1958, first published 1863. With a Biographical Note by Walter Kelly Firminger, son, dated 1904. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository.*''Indian gardeningGardening; a manual of flowers, fruits, and vegetables, soils and manures, and gardening operations of every kind in Bengal, the upper provinces, & the hill stations of India'' by Lieutenant Fred. Pogson 1872. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924000684930?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Volume I Flower and Fruit Garden''], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924000684930?urlappend=%3Bseq=235 ''Volume II the Kitchen Garden''] (in one volume) Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/usefulplantsind01drurgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce. Medicine and the Arts''] by Colonel Heber Drury 2nd edition with additions and corrections 1873 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924014480887#page/n3/mode/2up ''A Bibliography of the Botany of British India and Ceylon''] by E Blatter, S J 1911 Archive.org . Includes references to various plantation crops such as [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924014480887#page/n22/mode/1up/search/Cinnamon page xcv]
*[https://archive.org/details/colloquiesonsimp00orta ''Colloquies on the Simples & Drugs of India''] by Garcia da Orta. First published in 1563 in Goa, in Portuguese, the third ever book printed in India. 1903 translation by Sir Clements Markham from an 1895 new edition of the original. Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eS1ZcAHb3xgC&pg=PR1 ''Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias Orientales''] by Cristóbal Acosta with illustrations 1578. Google Books. In Spanish. A translation is being undertaken at NSBS Bangalore, as detailed [https://www.ncbs.res.in/HistoryScienceSociety/content/ongoing-translation-tractado-des-las-drogas-y-medicinas-de-lasindiasorientalis here].
:Other books by Cristobal Acosta [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=v0hgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 1582] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/trattatodichrist00acos 1585] Archive.org. Include illustrations.
*[http://archive.org/stream/catalogueofindia00flem#page/n3/mode/2up ''A catalogue of Indian medicinal plants and drugs : with their names in the Hindustani and Sanscrit languages''] by John Fleming, Surgeon of the Bengal Establishment 1810 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2ZdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Bengal Dispensatory: Chiefly Compiled from the Works of Roxburgh, Wallich... etc...including the results of numerous special experiments''] by W. B. O'Shaughnessy, M D. “Published by order of Government” Calcutta 1842. Google Books.*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8849/mode/2up ''A short account of the Materia Medica of Patna''] by R H Irvine,Civil Surgeon. 1848. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository.
*[https://archive.org/details/b20415552 ''Catalogue of the vegetable production of the Presidency of Bombay: including a list of the drugs sold in bazars of western India''] by George C. M. Birdwood 1865 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b20415576 ''The Indigenous Drugs of India, or, Short descriptive notices of the principal medicines, both vegetable and mineral, in common use among the natives of India''] by Kanny Loll Dey 1867 Archive.org. See Second Edition, revised and entirely rewritten 1896, below.
