Flora Indica

Dr. William Roxburgh, employed as the Director of the Honorable East India Company Botanic Garden near Calcutta, in his Flora Indica noted that in 1798 soybean seed received from the Moluccas (Indonesia) were planted in the garden. 

Roxburgh, W. Flora Indica, or Descriptions of Indian Plants Today and Tomorrow s Printers and Publishers New Delhi, 1971 (reprinted literatim from Carey s edition of 1832). 

Fig. 37. Ipomoea indica. Forest Flora, Malay Peninsula. No 22249. Geographical localization Gap Sanitarium garden, 1/20/1930. Collector Symington. Botanical identification 1 958.

Fig. 110. Lactula indica. Flora of Malay Peninsula. Geographical localization Expt. Plantation Kepong. Date 6/12/1927. No 11786. Field collector Ranger. 

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