DR. HOOKER’S MISSION TO INDIA. ll 
Artocarpus, Conocephalus.-—Moree : Epicarpurus.—Casuarineze : Cá- 
suarina.—Piperacez : Piper.—Palme: Cocos, Areca, Calamus.——Pan- 
daneæ : Pandanus, Nipa.— Aroides: Caladium, Colocasia, Pothos.— 
Najadez : Zostera. — Musaceæ : Musa. — Cannacee: Canna.——Zingi- 
beraceæ: Alpinia (phemicea, Kamphóvener), Amomum fructu acido 
(Rink).——Orchideæ: Dendrobium.——Bromeliaceæ : Ananassa.*-—Ama- 
ryllideæ: Crinum.—Hypoxidex : Curculigo.—Dioscoreæ : Dioscorea.—— 
Smilaceæ: Rowburghia, Smilax, Cordyline.—Junceæ: Plagellaria:— 
Commelyneæ : Commelyna, Tradescantia. —Eriocauleæ : Eriocaulon.— 
Cyperaceze : Cyperus, Kyllingia, Scirpus, Fimbristylis, Haplostylis, Di- 
placrum, Scleria.—Gramineze : Oplismenus, Panicum, Ischemum, An- 
dropogon, Paspalus, Manisuris, Dimeria, Isachne, Imperata, Saccharum, 
Bambusa, Pennisetum, Dactyloctenium, Phragmites, Sporobolus, Era- 
grostis, Poa.—Cycadete : Cycas.—Lycopodinez : Lycopodium.—Ophio- 
glossez : Helminthostachys. — Marattiaceæ : Angiopteris. — Schizææ : 
Lygodium. —Gleichenieæ : Gleichenia.-—Hymenophylles : Trichomanes. 
—Polypodiez: Dicksonia, Davallia ? Lindsea, Aspidium, Diplazium, 
Asplenium, Pteris, Vittaria, Adiantum ? Pleopeltis, Polypodium, Blech- 
num, Gymnogramma, Antrophyum, Acrostichum. 
Extracts from the private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written during 
a Botanical Mission to IND1A. 
(Continued from vol. i. p. 370.) 
DARJEELING, SIKKIM-HIMALAYA, AND THE PASSES INTO THIBET. 
Soon after my arrival at Darjeeling, I hired a couple of empty rooms 
in a long, cottage-like building, full of dissepiments (to speak botanically) - 
which divide the suites, each of which consists of two small apartments. 
From having been a boarding-house and hotel consecutively, “ the old 
hotel,” as it is called, has lapsed into the condition of partly-furnished 
lodgings. At the invitation of Mr. Barnes (brother of my friends at 
Colgong), who occupied rooms contiguous to mine, I chummed with that 
gentleman, and most fortunate I was in finding so delightful a com- 
panion, whose society I also enjoyed in the excursions I made aai = 
the month of May. sae 
The most lofty ridge of the mountain, on the northern spur of 
* Assuredly not indigenous. X. W. 
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