CONTENTS. 



PART L-INTRODUCTORY. 



Chapter I. -Historical : Tournefort, Linnams, Willdenow, Steven, Kun.c, Bentham, ? 



Bentham and Hooker, Maximowicz, Franchet ; lines of modification in 



terns of classification by various monograph 



Chapter II. -Morphology: General habit; root and rhizome; stem; leaves 



diso; corolla 



rttoenoe 



■psule, seeds 



ovary, style, stigma 



Chapter III.— D 



morphological evidence ; from colour distribution ; deductions from phyllo- 

 taxis ; general considerations ; distribution of divisions and sections ; 

 special considerations 



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. SIi ght valuo of characters derived 

 irom nabit in specific diagnosis; moderate diagnostic value of oalycine 

 characters and of those derived from fruit and seeds; nature of the 

 diagnostic characters relied on and method of their application; some 

 consequences of the method ; groups of species and value of charactaw 

 derived from habit and from seeds in determining these; higher sub- 

 divisions; the characters by which primary subdivisions are to U 

 determined; disadvantages of reliance on habit and on floral structure 

 in the same system; approximately natural divisions— their relative 

 disposition; approximately natural sections— their relative disposition; 

 comparisou of the system of Mr. Maximowicz with that now proposed . 1 \ 22 



Chapter IV. — Geographical distribution :— General habitat of the genus; delimitation 



of Arctic- Alpine provinces from their species of P< (Ocularis ; the Circum- 

 polar Province ; the European ; the Siberio-Turkestan ; the Japanese ; the 

 American ; the Chinese ; the Himalayan ; evidence of the nece»ity for 

 the recognition of these provinces; subdivisions of the Himalayan 

 Province— the Emodic, the Indo-Chinese, the South Indian; districts of 

 the Emodic subdivision — the Trans- Indus, Panjab Himalaya, Kamaon, 



Nepal, Sikkim-Chumbi, Bootan-Miri; of the Indo-Chinese subdivision 

 Assam uplands, Shan plateau, Yunnan ; validity of the annexation of 

 Yunnan to the Himalaya ; the Southern India district ; conspectus of the 

 Himalayan Province ; scope of phytogeography ; hypothesis of alternating 

 migrations ; comparison of the facts of distribution in Pedieularis with 

 this hypothesis ; deductions from endemic percentages ; deductions from 





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PART II.— SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE INDIAN SPECIES. 



Chapter V.— Historical Account of Indian species :— Number and condition of known 



Indian species ; bibliographical history ; chronological table of publication ; 

 iconography; reductions of the Griifithian species; reductions of the 

 Wallichian Herbarium; object of the conspectus of affinities ..... 61—66 



