116 PLANTH SCHLAGINTWEITIANA. 
Flueggia of Willdenow, (reduced to Securinega by J. Mueller of Aargau), 
has five years’ priority over Richard’s homonymous genus. 
ENUMERATION OF THE PRIMULACE/E, PITTOSPOREA, 
AND IRIDE/E, COLLECTED DURING THE YEARS 1855- 
1857 IN HIGH ASIA, BY MESSRS. DE SCHLAGINTWEIT. 
By Dr. F. W. Kuart. 
(Prate LXXVIII.) 
The plants enumerated below were collected by Messrs. de Schlagint- 
weit principaliy on their way to the mountain regions of Northern 
India. In the Indian peninsula their travelling being more rapid, and 
the country traversed well explored, botanical collections were made 
only in localities of special interest in a topographical or geological - 
point of view. 
To every specimen, locality, heights, and numbers are added. The 
heights are given either for the station, as such, or for the upper and 
lower end of the line along which the collection was made on the re- 
spective occasions. In general, where the limits are pretty distant from 
each other, the plant may be considered also as spread in greater 
abundance, All the heights—in English feet—are absolute, referring to 
the level of the sea. The full details of the different “stations of 
height" is given in the second volume of the travellers’ publications 
(where 3495 stations could be collected, of which the authors them- . 
selves had occasion to measure 471 in India, 804 in High Asia). The 
“numbers” given, refer to the original ticket in the ‘ Herbarium 
Schlagintweitianum.’ 
The material examined comprise 23 species of Primulacea, 1 Pitto- 
sporea, and 8 Iridee, with 1 new species of Primula (P. Telemachica, 
F. W. Klatt), and a number of important varieties in most of the 
other species. The great elevation at which Primulacee and Iridee 
were found, must be particularly mentioned, viz. Primula pusilla, 
Wall., at 16,905 feet; P. minutissima, Jacq., at 16,186 feet; Androsace 
lanuginosa, Wall., and Iris Nepalensis, Wall., at 16,500 feet; and Iris 
fragrans, Lindl., at 16,500 feet.* 
* The highest phanerogamie plants in the Andes, found on the slopes of 
Chimborazo by Colonel Hall, reached only 15,769 feet. In the central parts of 
