DISTRICTS ; BOOTAN-MLR I- YUNNAN. 



35 



Six species have been 



ported, of which one is endem 



Assam-Burma uplands, and four pass eastward to the Yunnan district 



three pass westward to the 



Table XIV 







Table of distribution for tlw Shan plateau. 



Species. 





1. P. Collettii 



• • • 



2. 



3. 



4. 



5. 



6. 



comptoniaefolia 

 corymbosa ... 



gracilis 



• » • 



gniina 



rex 



Endemic. 



• •. 



• • • 



• • 



i 



• • 



Totals 



tit 



1 



Percentage 



• • 



166 



To Aaam- Burma 



uplands. 



• • • 



- • 



i 



3 



50-0 





To Yunnan. 



1 



• . . 



1 



1 



. 1 • 



1 



1 



1 



4 



• ;<;« 



The Yunnan district lies between the Mekong and the Yang-tsc-k i a n g rivers, is 



organically united on its south-western border with the Shan plateau district, and 



it! 



the Yunnan highlands 



Willi 



passes on the north into the Chinese province. It comprises 

 the connected ranges of Tonquin to the south-east and of Kwei-tschou to the cast. 

 It has already yielded 40 species, of which 28 are endemic, 9 extend westward to the 

 other Indo-Chinese districts or to the Himalaya, 3 extend northward to China, and 

 one (the identity of which is doubtful) appears to extend east to Japan. 



Table XV.— Table of distribution for the 1 



ht[ghlands 



1. P. Alopecuros 



2. 



3. 



4 



5 



6 



7. 



8. 



9. 



10. 



axillaris 



brevifolia 



cephalantha 

 comptoniaefolia 



crenata 



debilis 



Delavayi 



deltoidea 

 densispica 



• • 



* • 



• • 



* « 



• • • 



• • • 



1 



1 



• •• 



• • ■ 



1 



■ a • 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



To Shan, Assam, or 

 Himalaya. 



To Japan. 



« 



» . - 



* » . 



9 • 



• ♦ • 



• • • 





Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, Vol. III. 



