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14. Mr. Fortune's Chinese collections. 



B. From countries to the west and north of India. 



1. Very complete collections made by Russian botanists in 

 Siberia, the Altai, North China, Dahuria, and indeed in the 

 whole of the Russian possessions, in Asia, chiefly from Lede- 

 bour, Prescott, Bunge, Turczaninow, Fischer, Meyer, etc. etc. 



2. Karelin and Kirilow^s Soongarian and Alatau plants. 



3. Szovitz's North Persian and Caspian plants. 



4. Aucher-Eloy^s complete collections from various parts of 

 Persia, Asia Minor, Arabia, and the Levant. 



5. Colonel Chesuey's Euphrates plants. 



6. Mr. Loftus's small collection from Assyria. 



7. Kotschy's very extensive and beautiful North and South 

 Persian collections, chiefly named by M. Boissier, and hence 

 of very great value. 



8. Asia Minor and Kurdistan plants from various collectors. 



To these very ample materials already existing in this coun- 

 try have to be added our own collections, which we estimate 

 at about 8000 species (including Cryptogamic plants), and an 

 immense number of duplicates. Many of the species were 

 gathered ia numerous localities, so that we have it in our 

 power to compare specimens from a great diversity of climates 

 and soils. They may be divided into five groups : — 



1. Dr. Thomson's collections made in the plains of North- 

 west India, between 1842 and 1847, chiefly in RohUkand, 

 Lodiana, and the Punjab, which amount to about 1000 species. 



2. Dr. Thomson's Himalayan collections, partly collected in 

 Kumaon and Garhwal during short visits to these provinces 

 in 1844 and 1845, but mainly consisting of the herbarium 

 collected during a Government mission in the north-west Hi- 

 malaya and Tibet, in 1847, 1848, 1849, in the course of which 

 he visited, in 1847, Simla, Kanawer, Piti; and in 1848 Kash- 

 mii- and the Panjab Himalaya, Ladak, and the Karakoram 

 Pass. The summer of 1849 he spent at Simla and Ladak. 

 These amount to rather more than 2500 species. 



