102 MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON TWO SMALL 
The comparison of Mr. Thorold’s collection of plants with that 
made by Mr. E. Winterbottom and myself in 1847 will be of 
considerable interest ; and I append an abstract of the portion of 
our collection made in Tibet. 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 41 
natural orders—88 exogenous and 8 endogenous ; the exogenous 
genera being 96 with 178 species, and the endogenous genera 24 
with 45 species, of which 30 were grasses and sedges. A single 
fern 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 80th and 82nd meridians, extending from Niti to Manasarowar 
Lake.—R. Srracuey. 
A full account of Capt. Bower’s journey appeared in the 
‘Geographical Journal’ for May 1893, with a route-map on 
which the altitudes are indicated. With the exception of the 
western part of Tibet, where General Strachey and the late 
Dr. Thomas Thomson botanized upwards of forty years ago, and 
several recent travellers have collected more or less fully, so little 
is known of the vegetation of the vast elevated mountainous 
region stretching from the Karakoram range eastward far into 
China, that Ido not hesitate to offer the Society a few parti- 
culars concerning two small collections of dried plants presented 
to Kew within the past year. 
Sureron-Carrarn THoroup’s Co_LEcTION. 
The first of which I intend saying something was made 
by Surgeon-Captain W. G. Thorold, who accompanied Captain 
Bower on his memorable journey across Tibet into China. In 
consequence of Mr. Thorold’s sudden recall to India, Iam unable 
to give such precise information on the localities where the plants 
were collected as I could wish and the Society might desire. In 
reply to my questions on this point, Mr. Thorold wrote: “The 
majority of the plants were collected in Tibet west and north of 
Lhassa; a very few being found north-east of Lhassa, but not 
one in Chinese Tibet—that is, between. Batang and Tachienlu.” 
This collection is a most remarkable one, and unique of its kind ; 
for, assuming that the altitudes given are correct, I believe I am 
