140 MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON THE 
botanical data, to which we may add a short note by General 
Strachey on the general character of the vegetation, written in 
connection with our account of Captain Bower and Dr. Thorold’s 
collection :— 
“The time during which we were there was little more than a 
month, and the area we traversed was comparatively limited ; 
but I think the collections were fairly complete. We were, 
however, rather late in the year, and we may have lost some 
of the earlier flowering plants. The total number of flowering- 
plants collected in Tibet consisted of forty-one natural orders, 
of which thirty-three were exogenous and eight endogenous; the 
exogenous genera being ninety-six with 173 species, and the endo- 
genous genera twenty-four with forty-five species, of which thirty 
were grasses and sedges. A single fern (Cystopteris fragilis) 
was found and three or four mosses. The lichens were obtained 
exclusively, I think, from rocks. The country in which our 
collections were made is between the eightieth and eighty-second 
meridians, extending from Niti to Manasarowar Lake.” Niti 
here should probably be Balch; and the statistics of the flora 
are probably higher than they would be within our limits; but 
it is difficult to obtain an exact verification of all the details. 
The following characteristic plants not in our Enumeration 
were found by Strachey and Winterbottom between Milam and 
Balch Dhura, or at least eastward of the eightieth meridian :— 
Arenaria glanduligera, Edgw., Geranium pratense, L., Viola 
kunawarensis, Royle, Lychnis brachypetala, Hort. Berol., Epilo- 
bium palustre, L., Lonicera glauca, Hook. f. & Thoms., Artemisia 
biennis, Willd., Lindelofia Benthami, Hook. f., Pedicularis 
versicolor, Wahlenb., Euphorbia Stracheyt, Boiss., Carex Lehman, 
Drejer, and Poa bulbosa, L. Had we included the foregoing 
plants in our Tibet list, it would have added two natural orders, 
namely Violacee and Onagracee, not otherwise represented ; 
but as they do not oceur in any of the other collections, we have, 
for reasons given elsewhere, left them out. 
Dr. Tuomas Tuomson. Little Tibet or Baltistan. 1847-48. 
. Although Thomson did not extend his travels into Tibet 
Proper, he explored the western extension of the same botanical 
region and the adjacent countries in which there is a transition 
to the rich flora of the humid Himalayas, and his work, 
* Western Himalaya and Tibet,’ has neither been superseded 
nor greatly supplemented from a botanical standpoint. It 
