BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOTANY OF BRITISH INDIA. Ixxxi 



Malabar, the Deccan, Ceylon and Burma. To these will be added, 

 under separate headings, the botanically little known countries of 

 Baluchistan and Nepal. For practical reasons we shall follow 

 the alphabetical arrangement of the regions : 



1. Baluchistan. 



2. Burma, comprising Upper and Lower Burma, Chittagong and Assam 



of the old maps 1 . 



3. Ceylon, including the Maldive Islands. 



4. Deccan, comprising the whole table-land of the Peninsula east of 



Malabar and south of the Gangetic and Indus Plains. 

 We include the Coromandel Coast. 



5. Eastern Himalaya, extending from Sikkim to the Mishmi Moun- 



tains in Upper Assam. 



6. Gangetic Plain, comprising the United Provinces and Bengal (ex- 



cept Chota Nagpore and Orissa), extending 

 eastwards to the Burmese botanical region. 



7. Indus Plain, including the plains of the Punjab, Sind, Eajputana, 



Cutch, and Gujarat (to the Narbada River). 



8. Malabar, comprising Gujarat (south of the Narbada), the Konkan, 



Kanara, Malabar proper (with Nilgiris and Palni Hills), 

 Cochin, Travancore, and the Laccadive Islands. 



9. Nepal. 



10. Western Himalaya, extending from Kumaon to Chitral. 



Part II will enable the botanist residing in any part of India 

 to find out without great trouble what has been published on the 

 vegetation of his respective district. 



I shall be thankful for any additions, corrections or suggestions 

 which may help to make the bibliography more useful than it is, 

 perhaps, in its present form. It is quite possible that the prac- 

 tical use of the list will reveal some deficiencies. 



I wish to express my thanks to Mr. H. N. Dixon who kindly 

 supplied me with a list of publications on Indian Mosses, and to 

 the Rev. F. Theissen, S. J., who helped me with regard to the 

 mycological flora. My thanks are also due to the Librarians of 

 the Peradeniya Botanic Gardens and of the South Kensington 

 Natural History Museum. 



1 The plains of Assam and Sylhet do not properly belong- to this botanical 

 region ; but other considerations induced us to include them here. Our regions 

 serve in this place a practical and not a strictly scientific purpose. 



