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6 segments in the flowers. I have also a new Epimedium, a large 

 handsome leaved herb, E. hydaspidis (mihi), and two species of Al- 

 chemilla. Fritillaria imper/a/zs, the Crown Imperial of English gardens, 

 grows wild in the lofty shady forests of Cashmeer. The Cashmerees 

 regard it to be unlucky, and grow it only near musjids and over graves. 

 Fothergilla involucrata (mihi), belonging to the Hamamelidece, exists 

 in vast abundance in Cashmeer, forming whole tracts of low jungle ; 

 — strange that it should not have been brought before either to you 

 or to me. It occupies the place that the hazel {Cory his Avelland) 

 does in England, and at a little distance does not look unlike it. 

 Thus, Hamamelidea are found at opposite ends of the Himalaya 

 range, Bucklandia and Sedgwickia in Assam, and Fothergilla in Cash- 

 meer, but none of the family have yet been met with in the interme- 

 diate tracts. Prurigos pabulnria I have found in vast abundance in 

 several directions, but the Cashmerees do not know it for any useful 

 purpose, except as a plant highly prized by Europeans. They some- 

 times use the roots to destroy worms, by steeping them in Dhaun 

 fields as Calamus {butch) is used in Hindoostan. The Umbelliferas 

 have not come into fruit yet, so I do not know much of my new ac- 

 quisitions, but I have got among others a species of Turgenia, a genus 

 "which I believe is new to the Himalayas. My brother wrote me 

 that you were inquiring about Koot and Amomum. Koot is ex- 

 ported from Cashmeer : it is a plant of the natural family of Compo- 

 site, which has not yet come into flower, but I shall let you know 

 about it hereafter. Amomum, Humama, or Amamoon, is not known 

 in Cashmeer nor to be had at the Piensarees. I have got a magni- 

 ficent species of Ornithogallum ?, with a scape 7 feet high : the Cash- 

 merees call it Prustereen, and prize it highly as a culinary vegetable. 

 I have had Dodonaa brought to me from above Juramos in the heart 

 of the hills, growing along the banks of the Chenab. I mentioned 

 to you in a former letter some of the anomalies I had met with in 

 the absence of forms common elsewhere ; not an oak, nor Andromeda, 

 Rhododendron arboreum, Mahonia nepalensis, &c., have I yet found, 

 though so common in the hills elsewhere. I have got Sparganium 

 {car inatum, mihi), Butomus and Villarsia Nymphoides from the ]h\h. 

 A species of Sagittaria is used here as a Cashmeree Salep, the natives 

 collecting the roots as in China. The Coniferce are, as to the east- 

 ward, 3 pines, 2 or 3 firs and Deodar, but I have not seen the Cu- 

 pressus torulosa, the lofty cypress of the Mussourie hills." 



