72 FLORA INDICA. 



14. Mr. Fortune's Chinese collections. 



B. From countries to the west and north of India. 



1. Very complete collections made by Russian botanists in 

 Siberia, the Altai, North China, Dahuria, and indeed in tin 

 whole of the Russian possessions in Asia, chiefly from Lede- 

 bour, Prescott, Bunge, Turczaninow, Fischer, Meyer, etc. etc. 



2. Karelin and Kirilow's Soongarian and Alatau plants. 



3. Szovitz's North Persian and Caspian plants. 



4. Aucher-Eloy's complete collections from various parts of 

 Persia, Asia Minor, Arabia, and the Levant. 



5. Colonel Chesney's Euphrates plants. 



6. Mr. Loftus's small collection from Assyria. 



7. Kotschy's very extensive and beautiful North and South 

 Persian collections, chiefly named by M. Boissier, and hence 

 of veiy great value. 



8. Asia Minor and Kurdistan plants from various collectors. 



To these very ample materials already existing in this coun- 

 try have to be added our own collections, which we estimate 



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immense number of duplicates. Many 



our 



power to compare specimens from a great diversity of climates 



and soils. 



groups 



1. Dr. Thomson's collections made in the plains of North- 

 west India, between 1842 and 1847, chiefly in llohilkand, 

 Lodiaua, and the Punjab, which amount to about 1000 species. 



2. Dr. Thomson's Himalayan collections, partly collected in 

 Kumaon and Garhwal during short visits to these provinces 

 in 1844 and 1845, but mainly consisting of the herbarium 

 collected during a Government mission in the north-west Hi- 

 malaya and Tibet, in 1817, 18*8, 1819, in the course of which 

 he visited, in 1847, Simla, Kanawer, Piti; and in 1848 Kash- 

 mir and the Punjab Himalaya, Ladak, and the Karakoram 



Pass. 



Ladak 



These amount to rather more than 2500 -peek 



