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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
THE late Mr, Lace, after his retirement from Burma in 
1913, did a great deal of work on his collections at 
Kew, and began to write a Flora of the Maymyo 
Plateau. The present writer sent him many specimens 
collected in the forests of Burma, and Mr. Lace kept 
him informed during the five years before his sudden 
death in Devonshire, in June 1918, of the results of his 
work athome. Large collections have been made by forest 
officers and others, and by the writer, all over Burma, 
and many new vernacular names have been recorded, since 
the first edition was published, and the present edition 
embodies the results of all these investigations up to date. 
The number of species recorded in the first edition 
was 2,483, and the number in the present edition is 2,927, 
A note has been made (except in the case of grasses) 
in column 3 of Part I, indicating where the plant 1s 
‘known to occur. This, it is hoped, will make the List 
more interesting and useful. A general index and lists 
of Talaing and Chin names have been added, In look- 
ing up records at Calcutta and Maymyo, and in the 
standard works such as Sir Dietrich Brandis’ “ Indian 
Trees” and “ The Forest Flora of British Burma’’ by 
S. Kurz, it is very striking to find on what slight founda- 
tions much of our knowledge of the forest plants of 
Burma is based. Some plants appear to have been 
