As In th 



m 



th 



h 



and to the intervention of the 

 tance of the other fiVu 



DISTRICTS ; YUNNAN-SZETSCHUAX. 



of the table for the Sikkim-Chumbi area, the 



is largely due to the high actual 



37 



to be discounted 



It 



plored tracts between it and Chumbi 



demic percentage 

 iber of species 



The 



es 



srreat. It is not 



I 



to 



perhaps owing to its political 



disposition, to treat Yunnan as botanically a district of the Tibeto- Chinese province 

 on closer examination the Alpine Yunnan species at all events 



Himaiayan than Ch 



and the evidence from Pedicula 



view that Yunnan forms part of the Himalayan and not of the Tibeto-Cl 

 This is best seen by comparing Yunnan with each of these 



from Yunnan appear in the Chinese p 



parts of the Himalayan province. Stated broadly, th 



the Himalayan province 



The ev 



Chinese 



prov 

 above defined, whil 



But 



ppear to be far more 



completely accords with the 



province. 



e species 



T 



c nine occur m 



figures indicate an 



the 



other 



affinity to 



dene 



from comparison with adjacent dist 



part of Yunnan thrice as great as its af Unity to China 



is more em 



still 



district rich in Pedicul 



that bord 



on 



Y 



is 



Szetscl 



T 



Plio only 

 18 district 



tends along the whole northern border of Yunnan, is of almost equal area, possesses 



very 

 three 



m 



physical features, and has been about equally well 



Yunnan- Ch 



species all occur here, two of them 



extending 



ivesti gated. 

 no further 



the Shan plateau district, which forms the south-west boundary of Yu 

 has hardly been explored at all, has already been shown to share f 



The 

 But 



i and which 

 species with 



Y 



Still 



more remarkable are the facts that the Sikkim-Chumbi an:i 



» 



hid 



1 IS 



separated by 540 miles of 

 and that another species, 



plored Alp 



utry, shares five species with Yunnan 



making 



six that pass from Y 



to the Himalay 



Prop 



> 



appear 



in Nepal and extends throughout the Western Himalaya as far 



Kashmir 



i 



Equally conclusive is the evidence afforded 

 so far yielded 28 species, of which 9 are endemic 



Szetsch 



i 



tself. 



This dist 



has 



3 (as has b 



) extend to 



Yunnan, and only 4 to the rest of the Himalaya, while 11 extend to Tibet and Western 



Kansu a 

 that the 



d 10 extend to Eastern Kansu 



between the Chi 



cleavage line 



These figures indicate with sufficient cl 

 ;e and the Himalayan provinces 



Alp 



Yunnan with the latter rather than with the former. 



Table XVL— Table of distribution for the Szetschuan (Chinese) district. 



2. 

 3. 

 4. 

 5. 



6. 

 7. 

 8. 

 9. 

 10. 



11. 



Species. 



1. P. anas 





• • 9 



• • 



• • • 



•*t 



• • • 



arm at a 



bidentata 



binaria 



craspedotricha 

 cristata 

 Davidi 

 Franchetiana 



• • • 



•• 



. # • 



• • • 



• • 



• ■ • 



• • 



id gens 

 kansuensis 

 lasiophry s • . ■ 



• • 



••• 



•• 



• • • 



Endemic, 



l 



«•« 



l 

 l 



l 

 l 

 l 

 l 



l 



• •• 



• • • 



To Yunnan, 







To Himalaya 

 Proper. 



To Tibet and 

 West Kansu. 



To East Kansu. 



• • 



• • • 



• ♦ • 



i • • 



• • 



• • 



• • 



• • • 



« t ■ 



* • • 



• •• 





«•• 



• • 



• • 



• • 



• # • 



l 



• • « 



*#• 



• ft * 



• • • 



« • 



• • • 



• ** 



• • • 



• • • 



• • « 





• • • 



1 



1 



• • 9 



9 •• 



• # • 





1 



1 



i 



t m , . , - • i i.u *u« ^iA»T><** afforded bv the Entomology and Avi-fauna of Yunnan. 



1 The botanical evidence is in accord with the evidence anoraeu uj ^ 5 j 



