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ENUMERATION OF THE LABIATA AND SCROPHULA- 
RINE®, COLLECTED DURING THE YEARS 1855-1857 
IN HIGH ASIA AND THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES 
TO THE SOUTH, BY MESSRS. ADOLPHE AND ROBERT 
HERMANN DE SCHLAGINTWEIT. 
By Dr. T. A. SCHMIDT. 
(Prate LXXXII.) 
(As Dr. Klatt recently published, in this Journal (Vol. VI. p. 116), 
the Primulaceæ, Pittosporee, and Iridee, collected by Messrs. De 
Schlagintweit,* and, as he gave on that occasion some details about the 
topography of the country in which this herbarium was made, espe- 
cially the mountain systems of High Asia, communicated to him by 
Mr. Hermann de Schlagintweit-Sakiinliinski, I shall add, in the pre- 
sent paper, merely a few geographical data respecting the different 
species. ) 
Indian plants, pretty numerous in these Natural Orders, are chiefly 
collected in the eastern regions of India, Assam, and the Khassia hills, 
partly also in the Panjab,—territories most important for comparison 
with High Asia. The principal features of High Asia, the reader may 
be reminded, are its three mountain-chains, described in Dr. Klatt’s 
paper. The southern slopes of the Himalaya have been divided into 
three parts,—the eastern, the central, and the western ; the latter, 
having been crossed by the three travellers, by many different routes, 
and being less excessive in moisture than the regions more to the east, 
furnished the greatest mass of materials of the present collection. 
The Karakorum, the northern border of the vast Tibetan longitudinal 
valley, notwithstanding its dryness and elevation, also contributed in- 
teresting materials from its southern slopes, (those towards Tibet) ; but 
the plateaux on its northern side, towards the third chain of High 
Asia, the Könlün, are very little represented in the Natural Orders 
here enumerated.+ 
Grisebach’s 
ere kindly 
presented by Dr. Hooker. : 
e Graminec, on the contrary, showed no appreciable difference between 
the Highlands of Tibet and those of Turkistan. - 
VOL. vi. [AUGUST 1, 1868.] Q 
