152 MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON THE 
(about 89° 30' and 31° 40’), into which a river drains which they 
were unable to ford, and therefore had to construct rafts as best 
they could. The grazing in this district is described as being of 
the most luxuriant description; but apparently no botanizing 
was attempted here. Soon the Tengri Nor or Nam Tso—Great 
Sky Lake—appeared in view, stretching far away to the east; 
while the horizon to the south was fringed by the magnificent 
Ninchen Tangla range, with the towering peak of Charemaru, 
upwards of 24,900ft. high. They crossed the Ninchen Tangla over 
the Goring La at 19,587 ft. and in 30° 12’, and then descended 
into the Goring Tangu valley, at about 16,600 ft. Here they 
were less than fifty miles from Lhasa; and it was here that 
asmall botanical collection was made during the delay conse- 
quent on their attempts to continue their journey to that city. 
At length they had to yield, and on August 29th they started on 
their long march of 1200 miles to Kashmir, passing northward 
to the Garing Tso or Zilling Tso, and then westward near 
the thirty-second parallel. Nearly all the lakes of this country 
have greatly decreased in size, and the process was still going on ; 
a difference in level of as much as 200 ft. being observed in 
some places. On September 22nd they sighted some volcanic 
mountains 4000 ft. above their camp at 15,484 ft., and on the 
eighty-sixth meridian. On October 10th they sighted the Aling 
Kangri (81°), and on the 27th they entered Ladak by the 
Kongda La to the village Shushal to the south-east of Leb. 
Out of 160 or 170 animals that left Cherchen, or were purchased 
on the way, only two ponies and six mules reached Srinagar. 
The collection contains sixty-four species of vascular plants, 
including one fern, Polypodium hastatum, Thunb., previously 
only known from China Proper, Japan, Formosa, and Corea. 
Ten of the species were described as new, and a very pretty 
grass is the type of a new genus, Littledalea, Hems]l. A detailed 
account of this collection is given in the ‘ Kew Bulletin,’ 1896, 
pp- 207-216 ; and some of the novelties are figured in Hooker’s 
‘Icones Plantarum,’ tt. 2467-2472. 
Captain M. S. Wextsy and Lieutenant (Captain) NIU 
Matcorm, D.S.0. 80°—102° ; 34° 25'—37° 25’. 1896. 
Entered Tibet from Leh, as their basis, a little south of the 
anak La (79° 35’ and 34° 25’); the same route, practically, 
as Captain Deasy and Mr. Arnold Pike took. The greater part 
