15s. Notes on the Vegetation of Seistan. 
By N. ANNANDALE, D.Sc., F.A.S.B., Director, Zoological Survey 
of India; and H. G. Carrer, M.B.Cu.B., Economic Botanist 
to the Botanical Survey of India. 
[With plates V—VIII.] 
PREFATORY NOTE. 
When two authors collaborate on a scientific paper with 
diflerent kinds of knowledge, it is as well to make clear what 
share each has had in the work. In this paper Dr. H 
Carter is responsible for all taxonomic and phytogeographical 
statements. while I have added notes made in the field, with 
for mention in print. 
e specimens on which this paper is mainly based were 
collected in Seistan and on the Persian frontier of Afghanistan 
and Baluchistan in November and December 1918 by myself. 
lake-system. Others are from Hurmu | in the stony desert 
on the Afghan-Baluch frontier, and others again, only a few, 
from the alluvial plain of Seistan It is from this last district 
that the fodder plants collected by Major Thomas probably 
came. 
The vernacular names were taken down on the spot either 
by natives of Seistan or by Indians well acquainted with the 
Persian language. I can claim no knowledge of this language 
myself and any comments on the names are due to Dr. Carter. 
N. ANNANDALE. 
1 It is disputed whether this place falls within the boundaries of 
Seistan or not 
