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Vegetation sparse and wholly herbaceous, one of the commonest 
plants being the famous * Kerguelen cabbage,” Then nag antiscorbutica, 
bes. ch is also found in the Crozets and in Heard Island. 
9. BRITISH INDIA, EXCLUSIVE OF ISLANDS. 
British Inpra.— Including Burma, this extends from a little west of 
presents the greatest diversity of soil ae climate. On the north are 
the highest mountains in the world, Mount Everest being a little more 
than 29,000 feet, or upwards of five miles d a half high. 
The following statistics of the Flowering Plants in the Flora of British 
India appear in the Introduction to the Botany of Salvin and God- 
ericana." s 
species, 13,647. Of these, 304 genera and 9,970 : species are endemic. 
The Orchidez are the most numerous in species, considerably exceeding 
a thousand. Next come the Leguminose, followed by the Gramines, 
_ Euphorbiac ubiaceæ, Composite, Acanthacez, Ovaries: Labiate, 
Urticaceze, &c., in the sequence placed. 
PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO INDIA GENERALLY. 
Roxburgh, W. Flora Indica, or Descriptions of Indian Plants. 
Serampore, 1832. 3 vols. 8vo. A second edition, edited by C. B. 
Ciarke, Calcutta, 1874. Large 8vo, pp. 763. mg rinted literatim with 
references to the volumes and pages of the orig 
Wight, R. Icones Plantarum Indiæ er Madras, 1840— 
1853. Six vols. 4to, 2,101 aie with descriptive letterpress. 
Hooker, J. D., and Thomson, T. Flora Indica: being a systematic 
account of the Plants of. Beitish India. London, 1855. Vol. i. 
Ranunculaceæ to Fumariacez, with an Introductory Essay : all that has 
appeared. 8vo. pp. 280 and 285, with a map. Valuable for the Essay. 
oe, ARS ae L 
Balfour, E. Cyclopedia of India..... Products of the 
Vegetable Kingdom. Madras, 1857.  8vo. 
Beddome, R. H. The Ferns of British India, being Figures and 
Descriptions of Ferns from all ses of British India (exelusive of those 
| m in the ** Ferns of Southern India and Ceylon). Madras, 1865- 
1870. 4to. 345 plates, with descriptive letterpress. 
Day, K. L. ka Indigenous Drugs of India. Calcutta, 1867.  8vo. 
Watson, J. List res Indian Products (the Vegetable Products, by 
a C. Doke). ` London, 1872. 4to. 
Drury, H. Her Useful Plants of India. 2nd edition, London, 
1873. 8vo. pp.5 
Balfour, E. be Trees of India, &c. Madras, 1870, ed. 3. 8vo. 
^ renis J. me ng dad British vare London, 1875-1887. 8vo. 
liv, completed, vol. v. in course being issued, bri th 
work down to the Orchid. E: ue e 
