AUCHER-ELOYS PLANT SPECIMENS FROM THE IMMAMAT OF MUSCAT

Aucher-Eloy was the first to make a comprehensive collection of plants from northern Oman (then called the Immamat of Muscat). He collected mainly in the northern mountains and foothills during March and April 1838. These as well as his other collections from the Orient served as one of the main sources of information for Boissier's Flora orientali s, still a standard reference work for the flora of south-west Asia Au cher-Eloy's collection from Oman is listed here insofar as specimens h ave been located in the herbaria at Paris, Geneva, and Kew. Identifica tions of the 143 species thus listed are revised. Collecting locations and a complete itinerary are reconstructed with the help of Aucher-El oy's published journal and his unpublished field note-book (at the Mus eum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris).