Plantarum Persiae australis siccatarum 
species 440, collectae a Th. Kotschy, determinatae a Dre 
E. Boissier, editae a R. F. Hohenacker. Esslingae prope 
Stuttgartiam. 1 
The plants which have been collected through the exploring of many in 
this respect rich lands by the highly meritorious traveller, Mr. Th. Kotschy, in 
south Persia, for zoology and particularly botany, are now ready for distribution, 
and the esteemed friends of botany, who wish to acquire these plants for their 
herbariums, are invited to get in touch with the undersigned. 
Since possible lovers may be desirous of learning where these plants were 
collected, it may be well to give a compact enumeration of the exploited areas. After 
Mr. Kotschy arrived at Bassorn, from Kurdistan and Mossul on the Tigris and Schat at 
Arab, he embarked to the island of Karek in the Persian gulf, where as well as on the 
neighboring island Korgo in December 1841 and in January 1842, he collected some sea- 
weeds and many at that time blooming phanerogamic plants. In the month of March the 
naphta well containing, and rich in excellent thriving date palms area of Dalechi, 
three days travelling northeastwardly from Abuschir, on the edge of the hot Arabien 
similar shoreland (Pers. Germesir) and lying at the foot of the mountain massif, which 
forms the Persian plateau, yielded a mass of interesting plants. Also in the environ- 
ments of the mountain and mountain passes Kotele Malo and at the somewhat higher lying 
small city of Kaserun in the mountains, where there are many citrus and extensive rice 
plantings, both of which places lie in the low mountain areas, in the land of the 
narrow passes (Tangsir), more were collected; but especially rich was the yield in this 
month in the region of the village Gere, which lies in the district of Komare, south- 
west of Schiras. Mr. Kotschy spent the months of April and May in the region of Schiras 
