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Syst. 3, p. 187, all insufficiently described for approximation even 
to other species. 
Besides the several species of E. Meyer and others already 
referred to Lotonosis, Lebeckia, and Buchenradera; A. laxata, 
Linn., is Lotononis twvolucrata; A. mucronata, Linn., is a Viborgia; 
A. orientalis, L., is Chronanthus orientalis, DC. (sub Cytiso), 
A. pinnata, indica, and ebenus have already been referred, the 
two former to Indigofera, the latter to Brya. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Screntrric Misston To THIBET. 
(Continued from p. 205.) 
It is with much pleasure we continue the extracts from the 
correspondence of Dr. Thomas Thomson. His last letter was 
dated from the Nubra Valley, a division, says Mr. Thornton, in 
his Gazetteer, of Ladakh, or Middle Thibet; a singularly wild 
tract, on the south side of the Karakorum mountains, or eastern 
part of the Hindoo Koosh, bounded on the north, the east, and 
the south sides, by the Shy-Yok, or river of Nubra, which, rising 
in the Nubra Tsuh Lake, or glacier, embosomed in the mountain 
joins the Indus above and east of Iskardoh. The lowest part of 
this tract was estimated by Vigne to be more than 11,000 feet 
above the level of the sea. Dr. Thomson’s next letter is dated 
“ Tskardoh,* Nov. 23, 1847. 
“I have been putting off writing from day to day, in hopes 
that I should get such letters from Kashmir, as would tell me 
* Capital of Bultistan ; latitude thirty-five degrees ten minutes, longitude seventy- 
five degrees twenty-seven minutes.—Thornton’s Gazetteer. 
