6. Note on the Flora of the South Indian Highlands. 
By Po PP ren PBA TLS. 
[Read at the meeting of the Indian Science Congress, 1915.] 
areas are completely separated by a stretch of lowland, at 
1500 ft., 100 miles wide, but narrowed by the Anamalai Hills to 
the Palghat gap. From the North the Nilgiris are cut off b 
a sinking of the Ghats to 3000 ft. in Mysore, and to the south 
the Pulneys and the connected Travancore ranges extend at a 
height of 6000 ft. for some 30 or 40 miles only and are 
tt more than 150 miles from the sea. 
With the Khasi Hills there are 17% in common, with Tem- 
perate Himalaya 12%, and with Japan and China 9%. The 
narrowness of the distribution of the phanerogamic flora as a 
whole is remarkable. 
e final identification of the plants was done at Kew 
during the writer’s furlough, and as far as possible they were 
