THE BOTANY OF SIAM 307 
the Kew Herbarium is from a very few collectors. After over- 
hauling many of the contents of the Malaya an bundles within the 
pen Gai: —His Malayan collections (1881-1899) — 
several plants from the Langkawi Islands, off the west coast of 
Lower Siam, and from the Kedah district on the mainland opposite, 
beyond the northern frontier of British Mala aya. 
Murton, H. J.—A set of plants received at Kew in 1878-82. 
i. ious sets of plants received at Kew, 1880- 
1899. The set dated 1882 includes onl twenty-seven sheets o 
Dicotyledons, and ther no cotyledon the other 
collected at Aden, Singapore, in Penang, and Siam, two hundred 
and thirty-nine sheets (nos. mir pirag are ‘of specimens collected in 
iam, many near Bangkok, and s in the province of Angkor 
(mostly dated 1859). P ovaral of a however, though appearing 
on ann, J. E.—A set of Malayan plants, mostly from the 
Dutch possessions, but including some collected in Siam, received 
n 1878. 
at — 
ap, Leonard, Junr.—His Malayan collections (1884-1895) 
inabiide some plants from the Kedah and Patani districts, north of 
the Siamese territory visited by Mr. Ridley. 
Zimmermann, Dr. Albrecht.—A set ose spel for the 
in 
Kew w Herbarium, a nd at present being sorted and . The 
collection includes many plants collected in Siam, in the area 
extending round Ban 
There is also a am collection from ‘‘ Upper Siam” made by 
the late Mr. F. H. Smiles in 1898, and received at Kew in the 
following year. Localities are not given in many instances; but 
i h the specimens, and testing in 
R. Mekong, in the Lao province of French Indo-China. The plan 
were all collected in the same area, and are wears aciarwere"! 
outside the present political boundaries of Siam, and _ eho 
parcel of specimens is not available for inclusion in ie lis 
plants of the country. Some of Mr. Ridley’s plants from Lower 
Siam are at Kew. The other sources of information available for 
reference include the accounts of embassies to 
consular reports on economic products, Foreiga Office papers, and 
