EXPLANATION 
OF THE 
PLANTS FIGURED ON THE TITLE-PAGE. 
The following Sikkim-Himalayan plants have been reduced and grouped by Mr. Fitch, chiefly from 
Mr. Cathcart’s drawings. 
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In the centre of the title-page, Oathcartia villosa. 
In the centre of the group of flowers, two flowers of Magnolia Campbellii. 
To the left :— 
A stem of the mountain Bamboo, on the left-hand side of the title-page. 
Codonopsis inflata, climbing round the middle part of the Bamboo stem. 
Dactylicapnos thalictrifolia (in fruit) round the lower part of the Bamboo stem. 
Meconopsis Nepalensis (yellow panicle of flowers), next to the Bamboo leaves. 
Arisema, species undescribed ; purple-hooded Arum, with two trifoliolate leaves ; beneath the Meconopsis. 
fubus rosefolius, red fruit, below the left-hand Avisema leaf. 
Rubus calycmus, red fruit, below 7, and across the bottom of the Bamboo stem. 
. Lthododendron Dathousie (white), to the left- of the Magnolia Campbellii (2). 
. Rhododendron Hodgson, to the right of 9. 
. Lthododendron fulgens, to the left of 9, and immediately above the Rubus (8). 
. Rhododendron eruginosum, a few flowers above the head of 2. fulgens. 
. Vaccinium salignum, below R. Dalhousie. 
. Calanthe, species ?, leaf and pale purple flower, to the right of 14. 
. Celogyne cristata, to the right of 15. 
. Coelogyne ocellata, a single flower, above 16, and a little to the right of it. 
. Celogyne Hookeriana, two purplish flowers and leaves, below the Magnolia petals. 
To the right of the Magnolia :— 
. A stem of a mountain Rattan cane, Calamus, on the right-hand side of the title-page. 
. Purple-flowered Zpomea (species unknown), elevation 5-6000 feet, and 
. Hodgsoma heterochita, both climbing round the Palm stem. 
. Meconopsis simplicifolia (blue), between the leaves and flowers of the Hodgsonia. 
. Rhododendron Aucklandi, large white-flowered, to the right of the Magnolia. 
. Rhododendron Thomsont, var. candelabrum, between the Magnolia and R. Aucklandii (beneath the 
word “ villosa”). 
. Rhododendron Thomsoni (scarlet), between 2. Aucklandii and the Hodgsonia leaf. 
. Rubus flavus, “ yellow Raspberry,” below Rhododendron Thomsont. 
. Dactylicapnos thalictrifolia, in flower and fruit (see also 4), at the extreme right hand, lower corner. 
. Aischynanthus Peelu, to right of Rhododendron Aucklandit. 
. Calanthe veratrifolia (pale lilac), below Rhododendron Aucklandit. 
. Celogyne precox (purple), below 27. 
