Excerpt from Burma, Its People and Productions, or Notes on the Fauna, Flora and Minerals of Tenasserim, Pegu and Burma, Vol. 2: Botany In Botany, likewise, it will be noticed that some orders are very incomplete but on the whole our knowledge of the F lora of Burma is more advanced than of its Fauna, except perhaps as regards the Vertebrata; and foremost among local workers, to whom we are indebted for a systematized knowledge of the Burmese Flora, stands out the name of the late S. Kurz, whose papers on the Burmese Flora in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal constitute the groundwork of the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.