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5. A very extensive collection made in Assam by the garden 

 collectors under the able superintendence of Col. Jenkins, contain- 

 ing a very complete series of the plants of the plains and lower hill 

 jungles of Assam, with many duplicates. It contains also a few 

 specimens from the Bhotan mountains. 



6. A very extensive collection made in the plains and hilly dis- 

 tricts of Upper Assam and in the Naga mountains by Mr. J. W. 

 Masters, and presented by him to the garden. This collection is 

 remarkable for the very careful manner in which the localities are 

 marked upon each specimen. It contains many rare and valuable 

 plants and numerous duplicates. 



7. Col. Vicary's Indian collections, made in the Saugor district, 

 in Birbhum, Berhampur, Dinajpur, and in the districts of Garh- 

 wal, Simla and Kuuawar in the western Himalaya. This collection 

 contains few duplicates, and many of the specimens are in a bad 

 state of preservation, but it is very valuable, because the locality 

 of every specimen is carefully marked on a ticket attached to the 

 plant, or written on the sheet of paper in which it is enclosed. The 

 Saugor and Himalayan collections are the best. Both contain many 

 plants which were unknown to botanists at the time these collec- 

 tions were formed, but which have since been discovered by subse- 

 quent collectors and published in various works. 



8. A small collection of Ceylon plants presented to the garden 

 by Mr. J. Watson in 1836, contains no duplicates. 



9. Mr. Griffith'' s collections. — Two complete sets of these most 

 valuable collections were sent to England, and are (I believe) in 

 the India House. The triplicates remained with Dr. McClelland 

 during the time that he was occupied in the publication of Mr. 

 Griffith's posthumous papers, and were transferred by him to my 

 charge in 1856. A small collection chiefly of Afghan and Malacca 

 plants has been in the garden Herbarium since 1848. Those re- 

 ceived in 1856 consist partly of garden plants selected by Mr. 

 Griffith for himself from the garden Herbarium, but mainly of more 

 or less complete sets of the collections made by Mr. Griffith on his 

 several journeys. The specimens retain in many cases the original 

 tickets and are carefully numbered. The numbers correspond with 

 those of Griffith's Itinerary notes, published by Dr. McClelland. 



