﻿42 S. Kurz — Contrihiitions towards a Knoioledge [No. 2, 



river, Arracan, Pegu, Martaban (all the country between the Sittang and 

 Salween is thus named by me), Tenasserim and the Andaman islands. 



The collections which were at my disposal when working up the Bur- 

 mese plants are as follows : 



1. The large collections of Dr. Wallich and Br. Brandis. Many of 

 Wallich's Numbers are not contained in the Herbarium of the Botanical 

 Gardens Calcutta, of others only fragments. The latter often proved very 

 useful in the identification of plants collected by myself or others, but were 

 only too often unfit for description in the absence of corresponding specimens 

 collected by others. I experienced therefore much difficulty in dealing with 

 such, especially as the greater part of Wallich's plants are not included in 

 the earlier parts of DeCandolle's Prodromus, etc. 



2. Drs. Griffith's and Heifer's sets of Burmese plants sent out from 

 Kew. Of the former's collection a set retained by Dr. McClelland to aid 

 in the editing of Griffith's posthumous papers, is still in the Herbarium here 

 and served partially to supplement the incompleteness of the material. 



3. Dr. Falconer's Tenasserim collections in the Calcutta herba- 

 rium. 



4. Mr. Eobert Scott's, the Rev. C. Parish's and Rev. Dr. F. Mason's 

 plants, in the Calcutta herbarium, which, especially those of the latter two 

 gentlemen, abound in novelties. 



5. Drs. Hooker's and Thomson's Chittagong plants, and also a few 

 plants of the same regions collected by Mr. C. B. Clarke. Only a small 

 collection was made by myself during a very brief stay in 1869. 



6. Dr. John Anderson's collections. Of these only the Burmese plants 

 and those collected in the Kakhyen Hills are included here. 



7. The collections I myself made in 1867-68, and again in 1870-71, 

 all over Pegu, Prome and part of Martaban. 



8. Arracan-plants, chiefly collected by myself and Dr. Schlich. A 

 small collection by Captain Margrave from the same province is contained 

 in the Calcutta herbarium. 



9. Dr. Stoliczka and Mr. Theobald, of the Geological Survey of India, 

 both presented to me small collections of Tenasserim plants, containing 

 several new or interesting forms. To this must be added a collection of 

 grasses and other plants, collected in the Prome district by Mr. Eug. Oates, 

 C. E., and a few plants which Mrs. Mason brought home from the Red 

 Karen country. 



10. Smaller collections and single plants from various parts of Burma 

 are contained in the Calcutta herbarium, collected by Mrs. Burney, Col. 

 Eyre, Th. Lobb, Dr. McClelland, Belanger, Reynoud, Dr. Cleghorn, O'Riley, 

 Th. Phillippi and others^ 



11. Dr. Roxburgh's Flora contains numerous contributions to the 



