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==Botany in British India==
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx The British Library digitised manuscripts] include India Office Records relating to "Botany in British India". A search using the key word India will locate the documents.
*''Flora Indica; Or, Descriptions of Indian Plants'' by William Roxburgh 1832 edition Google Books. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1IYCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KYcCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fm0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume III]
**[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
*[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]
