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Bengal and Hindoostan region. Its occurrence with a leap further 

 north is remarkable. From Huzara we marched on by the Pakl^e 

 road to MosuiFerabad. Near Drumbur I came on the Hovenia dulcis. 

 At Mosufferabad I got on a high ridge, and followed it on to Cash- 

 meer, where we arrived early in October. It was now too late in 

 the season to exhaust the Flora of the valley and neighbourhood, so 

 I made up my mind to winter here and make a fresh start in spring. 

 It would take pages to contain what I have observed about the Flora 

 here, late as I came. It has several anomalies ; few if any oaks de- 

 scend on the northern side of the Peerpunjal into the valley. I have 

 not seen one yet. I have selected oaks as a very characteristic type. 

 The same holds with respect to the plants that are associated with 

 the oaks, &c. about Mussourie. In the lake you see Nelumbiiim 

 and Eury ale fer ox, growing ^long with Meny ant hes irifoliata; and 

 cotton, a poor sort, growing on the banks, while the sides of the 

 bounding hills are skirted with pines. I got Staphylea Einodi grow- 

 ing along with Ribes Grossularia (your Himalense ?), while it grows 

 as you know at Mussourie on low slopes near Budraj. The Prurigos 

 pabulariu grows in the valley. I found it most abundant on Ahatoong, 

 a low trap hill on the valley, but it is not so vigorous a plant as in 

 its Thibetian habitat. I expect in the summer to get as far north 

 as lat. 36° at the least on the Kuenlun or Kara Korun range, a 

 most desirable tract to explore, as it will be clear beyond Hima- 

 layan vegetation, partly characteristic of that of central Asia. I have 

 already seen enough to convince me from a trip to the Thibet 

 frontier to near Durass, that the Flora ahead will bear a close re- 

 semblance in many general relations to that of the Altai Mountains 

 shown by Ledebour and yourself." 



" Deosir, Cashmeer, June 20, 1838. 



" I have written to you twice from Cashmeer. I have been going 

 leisurely all round the valley, and into all the subordinate valleys 

 which radiate on all sides from the great one. I have made many 

 acquisitions. Among Ranunculacece I have got species of Hepatica, 

 Ceratocephalus, and Callianthemum , all of which I believe to be new, 

 and making up the very blanks you notice in your ' Illustrations.' 

 Of Callianthemum, I have no knowledge, besides your quotation, biit 

 my plant has leaves with umbelliferous habit, 8 white strap-shaped 

 clawed petals, w^ith the nectariferous pore high up on the claw, and 

 XI pendulous ovulum. It cannot therefore be a Ranunculus, nor your 

 R. pimpinelloides. Further, I have got anew^ Ranunculaceous genus, 

 new unless Jacqucmont has got it, having the habit of TrolUus in its 



