FROM UPPER BURMA AND THE SHAN STATES. 13 
Descending to species, the results are very different. Out of 
about 725, only 15 are generally diffused, and 16 others have 
a wide range; 461 extend to North India; 280 to South India; 
223 to the Malay Archipelago; 181 to China; 71 to Australia ; 
12 to Polynesia ; and 64 to Africa. With regard to the specific 
endemic element, 177 species, or nearly a quarter of the whole 
collection, appear to be restricted to Burma and the Malay 
peninsula; and about 90 of them were, so far as we could ascer- 
tain, previously undescribed. Of course, further investigations 
in the adjoining regions may materially reduce this proportion ; 
but, judging from results obtained recently in Western and 
Central China, it is not probable. And after all, this is not a 
high percentage compared with what is known of other subtropical 
regions. 
The apparent absence in North and Central India of plants 
common to South India (the peninsula) and Burma is noteworthy. 
The genera Hopea, Berrya, Notonia, and Azima are of this class ; 
and about 25 species have not been found in the connecting 
or intermediate region. Of these Cardiospermum Corindum, 
Blepharis boerhaaviefolia, and Priva leptostachya also extend to 
Africa. In addition, there is a number of representative species 
in thetwo areas: such are Ceropegia nana and Brachystelma edulis. 
Specially interesting among the novelties are :—Jmpatiens ecal- 
carata, Pistacia coccinea, Neocollettia gracilis, Phylacium majus, 
Vernonia gymnoclada, Physostelma carnosa, Onosma burmanica, 
Ipomea nana, Phacellaria caulescens, and the exceedingly curious 
orchids Cirrhopetalum Collettii and Bulbophyllum comosum. The 
only previously known species of the very marked leguminous 
genus Phylacium has a wide range in the Malay Archipelago. 
Equally remarkable, geographically, is Anisopappus chinensis, 
which is also a native of South-eastern China and Eastern and 
Western tropical Africa, though unknown from any part of India. 
Osteomeles anthyllidifolia is another most interesting discovery. 
This shrub is widely spread in Polynesia, eastward to the Sand- 
wich group and Pitcairn Island. ; There are also specimens in the 
Kew Herbarium from the Bonin Islands ; and it is recorded trom 
Japan and the Luchu Archipelago. All the other species of the 
genus inhabit the Andes of South America. 
The most interesting point, perhaps, connected with this col- 
lection has been left to the last. It is the large number of tem- 
perate types it contains from comparatively low elevations. Sir 
