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On a Collection of Plants from lee: and the Shan 
States. By Brigadier-General H. Cor£zrr, C.B., F.L.S., and 
W. BOTTING Hewspés, F.R.S., A.L.S. 
[Read 7th November, 1889.] 
(Prates L-XXII., and Map.) 
INTRODUCTION. 
(By General Collett.) 
I propose to communicate to the Linnean Society some par» 
ticulars of a collection of plants made in 1887 and 1888 in the 
neighbourhood of Meiktila, in the plains of Upper Burma, and in 
the Southern Shan States, on the eastern frontier of that pro- 
vince. I began collecting plants in this region partly to gratify 
my own love for botany, and partly in response to the request of 
my friend Dr. G. King, F.R.S. 
From time to time, as the plants were collected, they were 
transmitted to Calcutta and incorporated in the general herba- 
rium there; for I had then no idea of publishing any account of 
them. Dr. King and his assistant, Dr. D. Prain, compared and 
approximately named the species that I had failed to identify, 
and they were many, and furnished me with the names, from 
which it appeared that I had collected a number of novelties. I 
also learned that nothing had been published on the botany of 
the Shan hills. Under these circumstances, and encouraged by 
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