
          Illustrations

Fig. 1.  Artemisia- lycioides association southeast of Kerman at
8500 feet elevation.
2. Amygdalus spinossisima and A. spartioides shrubs with bush
Astragalus near Sarvestan, Fars Province. Pistacio trees
are reported to have been cut out.
3.  Sparse bush vegetation in Bajga Valley, Fars Province.  It
is badly over-grazed. Some of the low bushes are gum tragacanth,
Astragalus microcephalus.
4.  The Bam variety of alfalfa in a young walled date garden in
Bam.
5.  A feathery-leaved Umbelliferae with ornamental appearance on
the highlands southeast of Kerman.

Map  1.  Routes of travel by Gentry on the 1955 expedition to Iran.
        