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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- 

 hunda 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 Asiaticse, — 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 Hke ; 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. Barnes'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 Harniala everywhere, with Capparidece, Crotolaria Bushia, 

 Calotropis Hamiltonii, Alhagi Maurorum, Ta^narix, Acacia modesta, 

 &c. &c. Near Lahore I got what I believe to be anew Asclepiadeous 

 genus exactly intermediate between Calotropis and Paratropis, with 

 the angular and saccate sinued corolla, membrane lipped anthers and 

 corona of the former, but the coronal leaflets cleft and the pollen 

 masses oval and ventricose as in the latter, with other peculiar cha- 

 racters besides. It is a low, twining, small, fleshy, lance-leaved under- 

 shrub . I have called it provisionally Eutropis. It is in great abundance 

 in the Punjab. I met with the Dhak (Buteafrondosa) as far as the west- 

 ern bank of the Jhelum. The Flora begins to change atRawulPindee, 

 which is elevated and continuous so on to the plain of Chuch, along 

 the banks of the Attock. Here I first came on the famous Zuetoon, 



the wild olive, Olea ? and further on, at Hussan Abdal, I found 



Himalayan Rubi and a Cashmeer Dianthus, white flowered and new 



