116 mr. c. b. clarke's botanic notes 



both the general appearance is extremely like, not merely the 

 male and the female flowers, but the fruit; but on examination, 

 the differences are found to be of the first importance. In Herpe- 

 tospermum the anthers are conduplicate, the ovule in each cell 

 solitary, erect ; in Edgaria the anthers are straight, the ovules in 

 each cell 2-3, pendulous. 



Edgaria will be a very difficult plant to intercalate in the series 

 of genera in Bth. & Hook. f. It is nearest in artificial character 

 to the Gynostemmese, from which it is very remote in habit. Its 

 remarkable outward resemblance to Herpetospermum, even in the 

 fruit, must not be laid too great stress on ; for there is now grow- 

 ing on Sinchul Mount, near Darjeeling, mixed with both Herpeto- 

 spermum and JEdgaria, a third Cucurbit which has female plant 

 and fruit like both ; but the seeds are very many, horizontal, and 

 it belongs to a remote part of the order. I add some drawings 

 of Edgaria, which are botanic only. 



The name is in honour of my friend J. Ware Edgar, C. S. I., the 

 present Deputy Commissioner of Darjeeling. 





Botanic Notes from Darieeliii£ to Tonglo. 



XI ° 



By C. B. Clarke, F.L.S. 



[Read December 2, 1875.] 



De. Hookeb, in his admirable ' Himalayan Journals,' says (p. 154 

 of the first edition): 



" The most interesting trip to be made from Darjeeling is that 

 to the summit of Tonglo, a mountain on the Singaleleh range 

 10,079 feet high, due west of the station, and twelve miles in a 

 straight line, but fully thirty by the path." 



Dr. Hooker made more than one excursion to this mountain. 

 He published a full account of the botanical features in the 

 4 London Journal of Botany ' and the 6 Horticultural Society's 

 Journal,' which are unfortunately not accessible to me here ; and 

 the leading features only are recorded in the * Himalayan Journals,' 



whence I quote. 



The route w r hich Dr. Hooker took was the old path, which de- 

 scended to the level of about 3000 feet above the sea, where it 



crossed the little Eunjeet river, and then ascended again to the 

 top of Tonglo at 10,000 feet, this great range of level giving 



