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several travellers, but nobody had previously exhaustively ex- 
amined the flora, or anything approaching it. 
In 1839 William Griffith accompanied the military expedition 
to Afghanistan, and passed through the western border of the 
country botanized by Mr. Lace, through the Bolan pass, Quetta, 
and Kila Abdulla to Kandahar; and he must have collected most 
assiduously all along the route, judging by what has since been 
accomplished. 
The Afghan Delimitation Commission of 1884-5, to which Dr. 
J. E. T. Aitchison was attached, followed the same route as far 
as Quetta, and then proceeded westward; and the botanical 
results of this expedition are given in the third volume of the 
second series of the Transactions of this Society. 
In 1850-1, Dr. J. C. Stocks made several excursions from 
Sind into Baluchistan, and botanically explored a parallelogram 
of the country to the south-west of Quetta, situated between 
the meridians 66 and 67 and the parallels of latitude 28° and 
30°. He did not publish a complete enumeration of the plants 
collected ; but he contributed a short though graphic sketch of 
the vegetation to Hooker's ‘ Kew Journal of Botany’ *, and sub- 
sequently described many of the novelties in succeeding volumes 
of the same serial. 
Dr. Aitchison’s contributions to the botany of Afghanistan in 
the eighteenth and nineteenth volumes of the Journal of the 
Society will be fresh in the memories of many Fellows. The 
country explored by him lies two or three degrees to the north 
of the Quetta region, and yielded a much larger proportion of 
novelties. 
This is the sum of what is known of the flora of the region 
under consideration. 
Vegetation. (By Mr. Lace.) 
General Remarks. 
My collection of plants contains about-700 species, the great 
majority of which are herbaceous; trees and shrubs being few 
in number in Baluchistan. The following are the natural orders 
most abundantly represented, with the number of plants collected 
belonging to each :— 
* Vol. ii. (1850), pp. 303-308. 
