VI 



Introduction. 



The following table gives the ten predominant Orders of 

 flowering plants within the Kiimaon area, together with their 

 relative positions in the floras of Simla, the W. Himalaya, the 

 E. Himalaya, British India, and of the whole world. The figures 

 relating to columns 1, 3 and 4, were taken from Sir Joseph 

 Hooker's " Sketch of the Flora of British India," ^ those relating to 

 colunm 2, from the late Sir Henry Collett's " Flora Simlensis," 

 and those of column 5, from Mr. Hemsley's Introduction to his 

 Biol. Cent.-America, vol. i. (1888), p. xv. : — 



A list of the Kumaon genera of flowering plants which contain 

 fifteen or more species is given below. Of the remaining 962 

 Genera there are 530 which contain only a single species : — 



1. Polygonum (46). 



2. Carex (40). 



3. Habenaria (30). 



4. Saxifraga (:^6). 

 i). Potentilla (2o). 



6. Gentiana (21). 



7. Andropogon (21). 



8. Corydalis (20). 



9. Astragalus (20). 



10. Impatiens (18). 



11. Sedum(18). 



12. Pedicularis (18). 



13. Ficus (18). 



14. Senecio (17). 



lo. Primula (16). 



IH. Panicum (16). 



17. Desmodium (15). 



18. Epilobium (lo). 



19. Saussurea (15). 



20. Swertia (15). 



21. Dendrobium (15). 



Some of the books or pamphlets mentioned below may be found 

 useful in connection with the botany of Kumaon : — 



Brandis, Sir Z*.— Forest Flora of N.W. and C. India (1874). 



Collett. — Flora Simlensis (1902) with illustrations. 



Jjon, 1). — Prodromus Florae Nej^alensis (1825). 



Dutliie. — Account of a Botanical tour in Kumaon, in Report on the 



Government Botanical Garden, Saharanpnr, for 1884-85, reprinted 



in Gard. Chron., vol. xxxi. (1886), pp. 277, 299, 371, 456. 

 (7w«W^'.— Manual of Indian Timbers (1902). 

 Hooker, Sir Josf'j)/i. — Himalayan Journals, vols. i. and ii. (1854). 



„ ,, Flora of British India, vols, i.-vii. (1872-1897). 



Hoolcer f. and Thomson. — Flora Indica, vol. i. (1855). 

 Jacr/Homont, Victor. — Voyage dans ITnde, vol. v. (1841-45). 

 K<(njil((L—VoYOS.t P'lora of the School Circle (1901). 

 Kini/, Sir ^Z. — List of the Plants of (larluval, Jaunsar-B;i\var and the 



Dehra Dun, in Atkinson's Gaz., N.W. Prov. and Oudh, vol. x. (1882), 



p. 299. 

 3Taddcn, Col. E. — See footnote on page iii. 

 lloi/lc, Dr. J. F. — Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalaya, vols. i. 



andii. (1839). 



1 Soe (Icscriiitive voIuiik! of " Tlio ludiuu Eiiiiiire," in the now edition of the 

 Imperial Gazetteer of India. 



