218 BÜI.LKTIiN Die l'HKRBIKR BOISSIKU (2'"« SKR.). (2) 



apparently from the Island of Junk Seylan. Könif^'s manuscripts and 

 plants are in the Herbarium of Ihe Natural History Museum, London (a 

 fact apparently unknown lo Alphonse de CandoUe, who omils any réfé- 

 rence to the collection in his Phytographie). The plants are sorry spéci- 

 mens, comparatively useless for discrimination, and only of inlerest to 

 the bolanical anliquarian. The manuscripts are badly compiled. writlen 

 in a Jargon patois, and often illegible.Among the raany volumes of Ihese 

 manuscripts, are Ihree dissertations which deal with Siamese plants : 

 1. Plantäe Itineris Siamensis, vol. lll, 59-113, vol. XIII, i-42; 2. Descrip- 

 tiones plantaruni et animalkim in iünere Slam, anno 1779, vol. IV, 1-54 ; 

 3. Voyage to Slam, 1778-1779, in vol. II, 1-180, and conlinued in some 

 olher volumes. As to the plants, after comparing three with then' cita- 

 lions in Hooker's Fl. of British India, vol. YI, and fmding them hope- 

 lessly at variance, bolh as to numbers, localilies, etc., furlher search 

 among the tangled scraps was given up as an unprofilable waste of time. 

 In the above work also, Finlayson's plants (1821-23) are recorded as from 

 Siam. This, however, is based on the erroneous Statement of Wallich. 

 Finlayson was attached to the Siamese Mission, but a référence to the 

 original roule-map shows that all his plants were coUected in Burma and 

 Gambodia. A smalt collection from « Upper Siam », in Kew Herbarium, 

 made i)y the late Mr. F. H. Smiles in 1893, and received at Kew in the 

 foUowing year, is also based on a geographical error. The collector pos- 

 sessed no reliable map; as the various localities given on the labeis flxed 

 to plants show that they are in a district of French Indo-China for beyand 

 the fron tiers of Siam. 



This list been prepared entirely in Kew Herbarium, and from the 

 material therein accumulated. The sets which afford spécimens of plants 

 collected in Siam are given in detail below. 



: Curtis, Charles. — His Malayan collections (1881-1899) include several 

 plants from the Langkawi Islands, off the west coast of Lower Siam, and 

 from the Kedah district on the mainland opposite, beyond the norlhern 

 frontier of British Malaya. 



Murton, H. J. — A set of plants received at Kew in 1878-82. 



Pierre, Dr. L. — Various sets of plants received at Kew, 1880-1899. 

 The set dated 1882 includes only twenty-seven sheets of Dicotyledons, 

 and there are no Monocolyledöns. All the olher spécimens in this set 

 were collected in Cochin-China and Gambodia. 



Schomburgk, Sir Robert Hermann, British Gonsul at Bangkok. — Of 

 Ihis set of three hundred and forty-üve numbered sheets, collected at Aden, 



