Flora of Koh Chang. 



Contributions to the knowledge of the vegetation in the 



Gulf of Siam. 



By 



Johs. Schmidt. 

 Part I. 



(Johs. Schmidt : Introductory. — P. Kränzlin : Orchidaceaë, Apostasiaceae.) 

 With Map (plate I). 



Introductory 



by Johs. Schmidt. 



With the present contribution 1 am beginning the publication 

 of a systematic list containing the plants collected by me during 

 the stay of the Danish Expedition in Siam (1899—1900). 



These contributions will be published gradually as the material 

 will be examined and named by various specialists, who have kindly 

 undertaken to work up my collections 1 ). 



The collections have all been made in the island Koh Chang 

 (see Map) and adjacent smaller islands, thus originating in a 

 small, fairly accessible area, of which the natural bounds 

 are given by its position in the sea. On account of this and as 

 catalogues of the plants growing in a certain locality have not hitherto 

 been published from anywhere in Siam, as far as I am aware, I 



1 ) The authors in question are alone responsible for the content of their 



papers with the exception of the words that I have to insert about the 

 occurrence of the plants in their natural localities. 



Botanisk Tidsskrift. 24de Bind. 1 



