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GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



Table 



• 



XV L— Table of distribution for the Szetschuan (Chinese) district 



concluded. 



Species. 





Endemic. 





To Yunnan. 



i 



To Himalaya 

 Proper. 



To Tibet and 

 West Kansu. 



To East Kansu 



12. P. longipes 



• • • 



• ft ft 



13. 



14. 



15. 



16. 



17. 



18. 



19. 



20. 



21. 



22. 



23. 



24. 

 25. 



26. 

 27. 

 28. 



macrosiphon 

 moupineiksis 



plicata 



Przewalskii . . . 



♦ • • 



- • » 



i 



*•« 



• *# 



• • 



• • • 



■ ■ • 



• • • 



• •♦ 



## - 



• . • 



• • • 



recurva 



• * * 



• • • 



rhinanthoides 

 rhodotrieha . . 

 Robwrowskii 



Roy lei 

 ludia 



• • • 



••• 



• • • 



• • • 



• • • 



•• ■ 



i 



• ■ 



i 

 i 



i 



i 



i 

 i 

 i 



i 



• * 



i 



i 



» * 



• • # 



« • • 



• • 



i 



» • • 



% • • 



• * « 



sima 



• - ■ 



• • • 



• • ft 



# • • 



• ft • 



siphon an tha 

 szetschuauica 



• • • 



# • • 



*% ♦ 



• •ft 



e • ♦ 



% • » 



1 



1 



1 

 1 



1 





ft • • 



1 



• •v 



torta 



tristis 



• * • 



• • 



• • • 



. - • 



9ft ft 



verticillata . . 



• % 



• • • 



• • « 



. * . 



•• • 



• • • 



••• 



»• • 



• •< 



i 

 i 



i 



i 



i 



Totals 



ft • • 



9 



Percentage 



» • • 



321 





The South Indian Division forms a single district composed of the Nileiri Hills and 



■ 



the Western Ghauts along with the highlands of Ceylon, and contains, as has been said 



only two species, both i 

 other is found there and 



i which are endemic 



Ceyl 



On 



is restricted to Souther 



Ind 



the 



The South Indian district is poorer in species, therefore, than any of the Himalay 



or Indo-Chinese districts. Of the Himalay 



the West 



districts are evidently poorer 



than the Eastern 



It 



not, however, possible to say that the Indo-Chinese districts 



poorer than the Eastern Himalaya 



since 



the 



districts that can at present be 



compared are Yunnan 



the one hand and the Sikkim-Chumbi area on the other 



But 



Yunnan, which in area more than seven times exceeds Sikkim and Chumbi, has as yet 



against 48 from the other district. It has to be 



only yielded 40 species, as 



however, that Yunnan has been by no means so thorcughly investigated 



•llected 



has Sikkim 



N 



port 



of the Yunnan district falls within the political limits of British Ind 



and the district is thus excluded from the scope of the descriptive part of this paper 

 Nearly all its species 



are fully described and accurately figured 



in 



t vii* of 



, xn, 



Mr. Maximowicz's Diagnoses Plantar am Asiaticarum contained in Melanges Biologiques 

 713 et seq. (1888), and to this very exact account of them the student is referred 



As regards the other 



g 



) 



it has seemed simpler to account for all the sp 



that have hitherto been recorded from them than to confine the paper too pedantically 



within the 



indicated by the political boundaries of the Indian Emp 





