2 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF 
N. lat. from the level of the plains up to the Snowy Passes; with these may be 
enumerated the plants of Cashmere, which can only be considered a valley of the 
_ Himalaya; the third portion consists of plants from Kunawur, a country which being 
beyond the influence of the periodical rains, has its climate, and consequently many of 
its animal and vegetable productions, sufficiently modified to entitle them to a separate 
consideration. 
The researches both in the hills and the plains having been carried on at all seasons 
for a series of years, the collection may be considered as giving (with the exception of 
the lower tribes of Cryptogamic plants) a very fair idea of the Flora of that part of 
India. 
The plants from Cashmere were obtained in 1828, 1829, and 1831, by means of 
native plant collectors sent with the northern merchants, on their return to that valley 
after disposing of their annual investments of fruit and shawls in the plains of India, 
Along with dried specimens, seeds and living plants were also brought down, and 
grown either in the Saharunpore Botanic Garden or in the Experimental Nursery in the 
Hills. This collection can only be considered as giving a general idea of the nature 
of. the Flora of that far-famed valley. 
The collection from Kunawur, consisting of several hundred species from a cold and 
arid country, made in two years during the seasons of vegetation, will give a very good 
idea of the nature of the Flora of that tract. The first collection was made for me in 
1825, by the late Lieutenant Maxwell, of his Majesty’s 11th Dragoons, and the second 
by my plant collectors in 1831. With these, through the kindness of the distinguished 
Mr. Brown, I have had an opportunity of comparing a collection in his possession, 
made by R. Inglis, Esq. of Canton, in the year 1830, as well as a small collection in 
the British Museum made by that adventurous traveller the late Mr. Moorcroft, in his 
journey beyond the Himalaya; a few specimens from the same tract of country sent to 
Dr. Wallich by Messrs. Webb, Moorcroft, and Gerard, may be se 
en in the East-India 
Herbarium. x 
* 
That attention may not appear to have been confined to too limited a portion of 
the Himalaya, the magnificent herbarium formed by Dr. Wallich, and presented by 
the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East-India Company to the Linnean 
Society, has been constantly consulted, for the purpose of showing either analogy or 
difference in the vegetation of different portions of the Himalayas. The plants of 
these mountains in the above collection consist of specimens from Dr. Wallich’s 
plant collectors in Kemaon, a portion of the Himalaya extending from the Ganges 
to the Gogra, together with many sent by Drs. Govan and Gerard, from Garhwal 
and Sirmore. The great proportion, however, consists of plants collected by Dr. 
Wallich himself in Nepal and its mountains, together with some from the same 
country collected by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton. The most southern and also most 
western point from which any considerable collection has been obtained by Dr. 
Wallich’s plant collectors is from the mountains above Silhet and Pundooa,—so 
that 
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