44 MR. C. B. CLARKE ON THE 
3. Anamallay Mts., Beddome. 
5. Mysore, Heyne, Wight, 1847 (second type of M. eyperinus, 
Nees), Wight, 1240, 47 B (hb. Berlin). Chota Nagpore, 
alt. 4000 feet, C. B. Clarke, 33685. 
6. Northern India, Royle, 33, Schlagintweit, 3285; Upper 
Gangetic Plain, 7T. Thomson. Lower Bengal, Wallich, 
3437 B part. (hb. propr.). 
8. East Bengal, Griffith, Kew n. 6242. Assam, Griffith, 
1477, Jenkins. Sylhet, Wallich, 320 (hb. Berlin). Khasia, 
alt. 3000 feet, J. D. Hooker, alt. 5000 feet, C. B. Clarke, 
43573. Naga Hills, alt. 5000 feet, C. B. Clarke, 41600. 
10. Pegu, MacClelland ; Prome, Wallich, 3437 © (hb. propr.). 
Tenasserim, Helfer, 307, Kew n. 6243/1. 
11. Penang, Delessert, Curtis. Malacca, Griffith. Singapore, 
Lobb, Ridley. 
Distrib. Ethiopia. Indo-China. Oceania. 
The above represent the Indian localities from such herbarium speci- 
mens as I noted when they passed through my hands. In this case (and 
in many similar cases, more or less so) the method of area-tabulation 
herein followed gives a very imperfect, primd facie erroneous, impression 
of the distribution of this plant in India. I believe it to be one of the 
most abundant and most generally distributed plants of India, every- 
where in or near hills, alt. 0-5000 feet, and only absent in dry places and 
long-cultivated areas, 
The breakdown of the method of numerical tabulation here adopted 
is not wholly the fault of the method. Firstly, few botanists (who 
collect) trouble to collect so common a plant, which thus only reaches 
the great herbaria in casual collections. Secondly, in the great herbaria, 
any example (unless it presents some marked peculiarity) is not laid in, 
any more than a Daisy from Surrey. No general method of tabulating 
areas from herbarium specimens would give a fair quantitative (or com- 
plete areal) distribution of the Daisy. 
MARISCUS SIEBERIANUS, Nees : 
Var. 6. EVoLUTIOR, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vi. 622. 
1. Simla, Lady Dalhousie. Gurhwal, alt. 6500 feet, SeAla- 
gintweit, S802. Nipal, Wallich, 3437 A. 
7. Sikkim, J. D. Hooker, T. Anderson, 264, 782. 
8. Khasia, J. D. Hooker. Cachar, C. B. Clarke, 7079. 
10. Mergui, Griffith, 87 (having the fruiting spikelets deflexed 
more than usual). 
