212 MWR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON THE 
Judging from experience of other parts of the range at the same 
level I should say that August would be the best time of the 
year for a naturalist to visit the steppe.” 
Dr. Giles’s observations on the provisions for protecting and 
preserving the seeds of the plants of this country are valuable, 
because they throw some light on the permanency of vegetation, 
even in the most arid regions. 
Klova of the Kuen Luen Plains. 
In 1892 Captain H. P. Picot, of the Indian Staff Corps, visited 
the Kuen Luen Plains, in the extreme north-east of Kashmir, 
and brought home a few fragments of plants screwed up ina 
newspaper. They are enumerated in a previous volume of this 
Journal, xxx. (1894) pp. 107, 123-124. There are twenty-five 
species, collected at altitudes between 11,500 and 17,000 ft., 
chiefly at the greater altitude. Among them were three or four 
which had only previously been collected by Dr. T. Thomson, about 
fifty years previously. The following are not in our enumera- 
tion:—Berberis salicina, Hook. f. & Thoms., Chrysanthemum 
Ktichteria, Benth., Lindelofia Benthami, Hook. f., Pedicularis 
dolichorrhiza, Schrenk, Allium blandum, Wall., and Kobresia 
Royleana, Boeck. 
The Plants of Mr. Bonvalot and Prince Henry of Orleans’s 
Journey across Tibet. 
It was intended in the first instance to include this collection 
i our Enumeration, but we soon discovered that it was almost 
entirely made in China Proper. The new plants were described 
by Prof. Ed. Bureau and Mr. A. Franchet. Freely translated, 
their note on the collection runs:—1lt was made almost wholly 
along a narrow strip of country beginning at Lhassa, and, without 
deviating much from the thirtieth parallel of latitude, continuing 
through Batang and Litang as far as Tatsienlou. The plants 
may be classed as the smallest of the genera to which they 
belong, and are remarkable for the almost total absence of stem, 
associated with a great development of corolla. In the direction 
of Tatsienlou the character of the Flora gradually changes 5 the 
plants are larger with broader foliage and more numerous flowers. 
The majority of the new plants described were collected between 
Batang and Litang. They are :—Parrya ciliaris, Viola florida, 
Silene platypetala, S. cespitosa, Astragalus litangensis, Spirea 
