COLLECTIONS OF DRIED PLANTS FROM TIBET. 107 
the perennial plants attain a great age, witness their extra- 
ordinary root-development. 
Captain H. P. Picor’s Corzecrion. 
Respecting the second collection I have little to say ; but it is 
interesting as showing that the composition of the vegetation is 
very much the same in such widely distant localities as Lhassa 
and the Kuen-lun plains, in the extreme north-east of Kashmir 
or Little Tibet. Captain H. P. Picot, of the Indian Staff Corps, 
visited this country in 1892 and brought away a few fragments 
of plants screwed up in a newspaper. ‘These were soaked, pressed, 
and mounted, There are 25 species, a list of which is appended 
to this paper. One third of the species are the same as those 
collected by Dr. Thorold. They were collected at altitudes 
between 11,500 and 17,000 feet. Excluding some fragments, 
concerning which no definite opinion could be formed, they are 
all known plants, though three or four of them had only pre- 
viously been collected by Dr. Thomson upwards of forty years 
ago. 
In conclusion my thanks are due to my colleagues at Kew for 
their assistance, more especially to Mr. J. G. Baker, Dr. O. Stapf, 
and Mr. J. F. Jeffrey. I would also call attention to Mr. C. H. 
Fitch’s careful drawings of the plants figured. 
Enumeration of the Plants collected by Mr. Thorold. 
1. Clematis alpina, Mii?.—Flowers yellow. Sheltered nooks 
in hills, at 16,200 ft. 
Widely spread in Central Asia from the Ural to North China, 
near Peking. 
2. Adonis cw#rulea, Maxim.—Flowers bluish. Wide valleys at 
17,200 ft. 
North-eastern Tibet and Western Kansuh. 
3. Ranunculus Cymbalarie, Pursh.—Flowers yellow. Edge of 
streams at 17,800 ft. 
Central and North Asia, eastward to North China, and North 
and South America. 
4. Ranunculus involucratus, Maxim. Fl. Tang. i. p. 15, t. 22. 
ff. 7-13.—Flowers yellow. Sandy earth and gravel in valleys 
at 17,500 ft. 
