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of anamorphosis consequent on the imperfect development of the 

 column, or vice versd ; in fact, that the deficiency of the one is abs- 

 tracted to make up the excess of the other. Next I discovered an- 

 other genus of the tribe Gastrodia, with a monophyllous perianth, the 

 segments, sej)als and petals being united for two-thirds of their length 

 into a tube. I found it on Dhunoultee, and have called it Gamo- 

 plexis ; it has the habit and look of an Orobanche. I have found 

 also a magnificent Malaxideous genus, standing, when in flower, 9 

 feet. You never saw a more superb affair, with rich yellow flowers 

 like the Cyrtopera. I have called it Thysanochilus. The seed-vessel 

 has no ribs, and in one flower of it I found a plurality of stamens. 

 I have several other new genera, which it would tire you to de- 

 scribe. Talking of Dhunoultee, I found Wallich's Fraxinus flori- 

 bunda growing on the ridge half-way between it and Landour, close 

 to the road. You remember the description you give of the irregu- 

 larity of the Paris polyphylla in Wallich's Plantse Asiaticae, — I found 

 the Podophyllum Emodi growing intermixed with it, and strange to 

 say, as if bewitched with the same turn for vagaries, with every 

 number of stamens from 6 to 10, and in almost every flower one 

 filament bearing two anthers, and that filament invariably the one 

 opposite the petiole of the flower-bearing leaf. In one flower I found 

 the following irregularities : 6 petals, 10 anthers, 7 filaments, or 

 stamens if you like ; on one filament 3 anthers, on another 2, and the 

 remaining 5 regular. Singular that it and the Paris should grow 

 together and both so irregular." 



Under date of January 26, 1838, from Cashmere, whither he had 

 proceeded on a Botanic mission in connexion with Sir Alex. Burnes's 

 Expedition, Dr. F. says, " I am now wintering in Cashmere, with the 

 prospect before me of pushing across through Little Thibet towards the 

 Kuenlun Mountains when the snow clears. I started from Loodiana, 

 where, by the by, I got the Butomus umbellatus in flower and fruit, 

 new, I believe, to the plains of India ; and after a few days at Lahore, 

 I marched on through the Punjab to Attock in the month of July ; no 

 rains and fearful heat in the sandy plains I went along. From the want 

 of rain and my route being through an open plain I did not glean much 

 in my march. The Flora is exactly that of the neighbourhood of Delhi; 

 Peganum Harmala everywhere, with Capparidece, Crotolaria Bushia, 

 Calotropis Hamiltonii, Alhagi Maurorum, Tamarix, Acacia modesta, 

 SiC. &c. Near Lahore I got what I believe to be a new Asclepiadeous 

 genus exactly intermediate between Calotropis and Paratropis, with 

 the angular and saccate sinued corolla, membrane lipped anthers and 



