THE JOURNAL 
OF 
THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 
Os THE SUBSUBAREAS OF BRITISH INDIA, illustrated by the 
detailed Distribution of the Cyperacee in that Empire. 
By C. B. Cranke, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S. 
[Read 2nd June, 1898.] 
(With Mar—Prarz 1.) 
INTRODUCTION. 
Bnurrisu INDIA having been treated as a Subarea of the Indo- 
Chinese Area *, the present paper attempts to divide it into a 
convenient number (11) of Subsubareas for botanie reference. 
As a test of the convenience of these subsubareas, and as an 
illustration of how they are intended to be employed, the whole of 
the material used in preparing the Order Cyperaceæ for Sir J. D. 
Hooker's * Flora of British India” has been tabulated upon this 
framework. This is a somewhat lengthy process, but it is 
believed that only by a somewhat full trial ean the convenience 
of a scheme of subsubareas be tested; moreover, it affords an 
opportunity for the suggestion of improvements in the scheme 
of subsubareas proposed. The tabulation is also a complete 
account of the geographie distribution of the Cyperaeesm in 
British India, and thus forms an Appendix to Sir J. D. Hooker's 
‘Flora’ in which the distribution is only given generally ; 
the present paper is an Index to all the localities and all 
the collectors’ numbers actually used in the Cyperacez for the 
“Flora of British Iudia.’ 
* Phil. Trans, vol. 183 B (1892), p. 371. 
LINN. JOURN.— BOTANY, VOL. XXXIV. B 
