FROM UPPER BURMA AND THE SHAN STATES. 11 
remote regions, will result in the greater happiness and content- 
ment of the people 
In concluding this part of the introduction, I wish to record 
my obligations and thanks to Mr. Thiselton Dyer, the Director 
of Kew Gardens, for permitting the use of the Herbarium and 
Library, and other advantages of the establishment under his 
charge, for the purpose of working out my collection. I have 
also much pleasure in testifying to the great care and skill 
bestowed on the drawings by Miss M. Smith, and to the equally 
careful work of Mr. Charles Fitch in transferring them on to 
stone. 
STATISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE PLANTS. 
(By Mr. Hemsley.) 
The collection of plants under review is not sufficiently com- 
preheusive to afford data for an exhaustive analysis of the flora 
of Upper Burma and the Southern Shan hills; but it has brought 
to light some interesting facts that may be worth bringing 
under the notice of the Society. As General Collett has already 
stated, the Grasses had not reached England at the time of 
writing this, and are therefore not included in the following 
numbers and comparisons. It may be repeated here that the 
collection comprises about 725 species of flowering plants, be- 
longing to 460 genera and 109 natural orders. These propor- 
tions closely approach those obtaining in many insular floras, 
but they may be, and probably are, wide of the actual proportions 
in the whole flora of the Shan hills. Nevertheless, it is aremark- 
able fact that in this collection, which is not to be regarded as a 
selection, the species are to genera about as 1'6 to 1; and many 
of the natural orders, even some of those relatively numerous in 
species, are represented by nearly as many genera as species. 
Thus, of the Asclepiadee, there are fifteen species belonging to 
fourteen genera; and no fewer than 328 of the 460 genera are 
represented by a single species each. On the other hand, a few 
genera are relatively large in species; these are :— 
Species. Species, 
PNRA ios Oe cre eda 14 Desmodsum 3. 1 6 
Capparis SLN I0 F MOJITO vs 6 
Onerels. 5. eyes TR EE era 5 
Vals... ee 9 Millett sls o 5 
Crolaluria ss, 7 Bauhinia ...... T 5 
SOrobVlanthes A... E seen 6 E I E ae 2 9 
