Introduction. v 



brackets) of the collectors or botanists on whose authority they 

 have been included. i 



Of the more important contributions to our knowledge of the 

 Kumaou flora within recent times should bo mentioned the large 

 and valuable collection of plants made by the late Colonel 

 Anderson, K.E., by whom they were presented to the Saharanpur 

 Herbarium. The plants were collected chiefly in the vicinity of 

 Naiui-tal, and amongst them were a few undescribed species. 

 During the summer months of 1883 I explored very carefully the 

 Bhngirathi or Gangotri Valley, also Jumnotri and the upper 

 portion of the Junma Valley at elevati(ms between 11,000 and 

 16,000 ft. Also during the three following years (1884-86) I 

 made extensive tours through British Garhwiil to N. Kumaou 

 and W. Nepal with my friend Mr. J. E. Eeid, who was at that 

 time Chief Secretary to the Governmejit of the N.W. Provinces 

 and Oudh. As these expeditions were specially planned to enable 

 us to visit as far as possible unexplored ground, we were able to 

 add very considerably to the known flora of this portion of the 

 Western Himalaya. Some additional no^'elties were subsecpiently 

 obtained from that region by means of trained native plant- 

 collectors sent from Saharanpur. 



The following table contains a summary of the Orders, Genera, 

 and Species of the Kumaon, Garhwal, and Tibet specimens in- 

 cluded in the Catalogue, together with the number of such Orders, 

 Genera, and Species as extend to China and Britain : — 



* The three Kumaon orders not represented in China are : 



and Datisceaj, 



-Oclinaceae, Moringea?, 



^ T.A, — Dr. Thomas Anderson ; B. — ^Sir Dietrich Brandis ; Bl. — Richard Blink- 

 worth (collected in Kumaon for Dr. Wallich) ; C. — C. B. Clarke; Collett — the 

 late -Colonel Sir Henry Collett ; D. — Duthic ; Dav. — the late Cokmel Davidson, 

 who collected hirj^ely in the neighbourhood of Naiui-tal; E. — the late M. P. 

 Pldgcworth ; F. — Dr. Hugh Falconer ; F.B.I. — Sir Joseph Hooker's Fl. Brit. Ind. ; 

 J. — Victor Jac(iut'mont ; K. — Sir George King; F.W.M. — P. W. Mackinnon 

 (chiefly oi-chids and ferns) ; M. — the late Colonel Madden ; K. — Dr. J. F. Boyle ; 

 J.L.S. — Dr. J. Lindsay Stewart ; T. — Dr. Tiionuis Thoinsou ; Y. — Major N. 

 Vicary; W.— Dr. Wallich. 



