Polygalee.] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 75 
more diffuse, flowers more numerous on each plant, as well as in the axilla of each leaf, as represented 
in Wall. Ic. ined. No. 850. This difference may probably be owing to the latter being from a 
moister climate than that whence my specimens, which are closely allied to V. biflora, were procured. 
3. V. Kunawurensis ; glaberrima, caulibus radiciformibus duriusculis humilibus, foliis ovato-lanceo- 
latis basi attenuatis longe petiolatis, stipulis adnatis, sepalis ovatis venosis, petalis liberis omnibus 
imberbibus ceruleis, calcare brevi obtusissimo, stylo claviformi recurvo.—Hab. Kunawur. Tab. 18. 
fig. 3. : 
16. DROSERACE#. 
The plants, constituting the genus from which this family is named, depend less on 
the temperature, than on the moisture of a climate, for their distribution ; we find them 
therefore wherever there is a damp atmosphere and moist soil, in Europe and in Ame- 
rica even to the Straits of Magalhaens, in Van Diemen’s Land, at the Cape of Good 
Hope, and also in China. In India species of Drosera are found in the northern, as in 
the most southern parts. D. Burmanni and Indica being found in Bengal and the 
Peninsula, while D. /unata occurs in the mountains from Silhet to the Sutlej. This I 
have found in the small valleys enclosed within the different lateral projections of the 
Mussooree Range, where the ground is rather flat, and the soil moist. In such situ- 
ations it springs up and flowers in considerable quantities, but only during the rainy 
season, when the thermometer has a range of not more than ten degrees, between 60° 
and 70°, and the hygrometer always indicates a degree of moisture approaching that of 
saturation. This species, which in my MSS. Catalogue I had named D. muscipula 
from the glandular ciliz of its viscous leaves closing upon flies and other insects, which 
happen to light upon them, is remarkable, as in this respect resembling Dion@a mus- 
cipula, which is placed in the same natural family. It is probable that this species 
would yield a valuable dye, as the paper in which the plants were dried became dyed 
of a pink colour. As the plant is interesting in so many respects, it was intended. to 
ltave given a figure of it; but there being mo space either in Plate 17 or 18, it is intended 
to figure it whenever a favourable opportunity occurs for so doing. Besides this genus, 
Aldrovanda vesiculosa is described as being found in “ paludosis Indie,” and Dr. Rox- 
burgh has a new species, A. verticillata, but I have not met with either, neither are they 
enumerated in Dr.Wallich’s Catalogue. | 
17, POLYGALEZ, 
_ The genus pe from which this order is named, being found in most parts of the 
alia whether hot or cold, is also met with in India, both in the plains and in the moun- 
tains. About thirty Indian species have been enumerated ; of these nine belong to the 
Himalayas, the remainder are found in the Peninsula and Burhmese country. P. tele- 
phioides and arvensis, which hardly differ from one another, are those which extend all 
over the plains of India, as far north as the latitude of Delhi. P. oligophylla is found at 
the foot of the Himalayas, and P. Gerardiana on their northern face. Salomonia is one 
of the genera common and peculiar toChina and Nepal. Securidaca, which was thought 
to be restricted to the warmer parts of South America, has also been found in Silhet 
A and 
