cold weather, is Anagallis arvensis, found also in the Hima- 
layas, in Europe, and so many other places. Lysimachia 
obovata was found by Dr. Wallich at the foot of the moun- 
tains, in the forests bounding Oude ; Androsace rotundifolia 
and incisa descend to the Deyra Doon. But in the ‘moun- 
tains the species of Primulaces are about forty-five in num- 
ber, belonging to the genera Primula, Androsace, Lysimachia, 
Centunculus, and Samolus, which are all, except Androsace, 
found also in America. Of these, Lysimachia extends most 
southerly, as it is found on the Pundua and Neelgherry moun- 
tains, as well as on those of Taong Dong, and in Ava, 
(v. Wall. Cat. N. 1489.) Species are very generally diffused 
in the Himalayas, and found as high as 7,000 feet at Mus- 
sooree, but chiefly during the rainy season; one or two 
species occur also in Kunawur, with L. thyrsiflora? Linn. 
Samolus Valerandi, found already so widely diffused in Europe, 
Asia, and N. America, also in New Holland, and in Central 
Africa, is likewise found in the Himalayas by the sides of 
springs and little rivulets, at elevations of 5,000 feet, as near 
Chinalug, on the Suen range, and also in Kunawur, at 
Chaogaon. Centunculus indicus, nob. (v. Ic. ined. N. 348.) 
is also found at moderate elevations. The genera Primula 
and Androsace have much the same distribution, sending a 
few species towards the foot of the mountains, and others 
towards the highest points of vegetation. Thus, as we have 
seen, Androsace rotundifolia and incisa descend towards the 
Doon; A. lanuginosa is found in Choor, &c. and other 
species, as A. reptans and nidulans, nob., in cold and bleak 
parts of Kunawur; so Primula has one species, P. floribunda, 
at as low an elevation as 5,000 feet in the neighbourhood of 
Kuerkoolee ; but at higher elevations, as in the ascent to 
Choor in the earliest springs, and when the snow has just 
begun to melt from the neighbourhood of stones or trees, or 
from situations exposed to the full influence of the solar rays, 
we find, in full and luxuriant flower, P. denticulata and 
petiolaris; on still loftier situations, as Gossainthan, Kedar- 
kanta, and some of the passes, we find P. Stuartü, with its 
rich yellow glow, by the side’of the equally beautiful P. pur- 
purea ; the first also extends to Peer Punjal, where is also 
found P. elliptica; and in Kunawur, the new species, P. 
obtusifolia, spathulata, involucrata, and nana, nob. 
