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weather, which is during the cool season, but would probably enjoy 

 the most favourable conditions for furthering his objects. 



The collection secured contains practically all the species in 

 flower that I met with round our camps, and was made between 

 Phanrang, on the coast of South Annam in Lat. 11° 35' N., and the 

 Langbian Peaks, 7,500 ft. (in the hill province of Langbian which 

 contains almost all the southern extremity of the Annamite moun- 

 tain chain), distant from Phanrang about fifty miles in a NW ^ N 

 direction. 



The places from which specimens came are : — 



1. Tour Cham, Phanrang Province : on the coastal plain 

 four miles from Phanrang. The country in the neighbourhood is 

 covered with short grass and scattered thorny bushes, many with 

 succulent leaves : it has a superficial resemblance to much South 

 African scenery and is very sterile except where irrigated for rice. 

 (Specimens collected in March and May). 



2. Daran, Phanrang Province: about thirty miles NW h N 

 from Tour Cham. Situated within the lower spurs of the mountain 

 range at a height of 650 ft. The locality is mainly clothed with 

 forest, tropical, but very different from dense equatorial jungle owing 

 to the scantiness of undergrowth and the absence of parasitic plants 

 and lianas : very dry except along the banks of the Kronfa river 

 and largely very rocky. In March while I was sojourning there 

 the prevailing tints of the foliage were yellow and pink and the 

 ground was covered with dry leaves; but in May, when I passed by 

 again, all the vegetation had become a beautiful fresh green. 

 (Specimens collected in March). 



3. Draw, Langbian Province; about twelve miles from 

 Daban and up in the mountains at 3,000 ft. on a broad shelf or 

 plateau through which the Da Nhiin (river) runs to join the Donai. 

 The first pines were seen at 2,700 ft., and at 3,000 ft. and higher 

 they predominate in grass-land, though green and denser non- 

 coniferous forest also occurs. The pine-woods consist principally of 

 Pinus Khasya with a small proportion of Pinus Merkusii and a 

 few solitary trees of Thuya sp. ; corky-barked oaks grow also among 



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