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the Sutlej which enabled our troops to enter the territory of the 

 Sikh Khalsa, was given a brevet-majority for his distinguished 

 services, and was permitted to return to the substantive post of 

 Executive Engineer of the Ganges Canal, to which he had been 

 appointed in 1842. Frequent attacks of fever, however, necessi- 

 tated his transfer to the Hill Station of Naini Tal, and afforded 

 him opportunities, of which he availed himself to the utmost, of 

 studying the vegetation of the North-Western Himalayas, more 



especially m Kumaon and in the adjacent portions of Garhwal 

 and Tibet. 



si 



Little was known regarding the flora of Kumaon until about . 

 xty years ago, when Strachey commenced his scientific survey 

 .the mountain ranges westward of Nenal. and afterwards, in 



Mr. J. E. W 



It was on the 



iviie j ------ .~~ s ^ a ™<rauvv«ru vl mepai, ana 



i Zu n ™f rtoo Y an extensive journey with Mr. J. I 

 to the Kakas-tal and Manasarowar Lakes in Tibet, 

 latter occasion that a large proportion of the plants contained m 

 what is known as the « Strachey and Winterbottom Herbarium" 

 was collected Starting from the plain of Rohilkhand at an 

 rante L °! f ° Ut a thousand feet above sea-level, a north-easterly 

 TihS«n li * n aC /° SS the 8now y ran S es > and terminating on the 

 thoii Sa n/f f aU X an altitude of bet ween fourteen and fifteen 

 account hv I- °p- th if U P P , er C0urse of the river Sutlej. A detailed 

 wm be fonn^i • ;? ar T d Strache >' of this verv interesting journey 

 London Vof Yv'nonof 1 ° f the Roval Geographical Society of 

 b? HemaW n Tk ( W' which is also ****"«* to in a paper 

 S ^theToirLl Z ^ T F1 ° ra ° f Tibet or Hi * h Asia " Published 



herbarium wLl ^T* S ° dety ' Vo1 ' * XXV ' < 19 ^)- The 

 cm^™ ™ \ C °? ta u ned over two thousand species (including 



r umfno^^? dl fS^ in *»■« to the Hookerian Herba- 

 and toT at l 6 ^^ * he British Museum, the Linnean Society, 

 were carefullv L l» ° ont i ne »tal museums. All the specimens 

 at which thevt f Wlt ? n ° tes of the localities and elevation 

 prepared bv Sir [j q!° U l A Provisionally named catalogue, 

 with each d'istr hnte^ 7° « ey ,' Was P rin ted, and a copy was sent 

 r^l^^*'^* This catalogue was^afterwards 

 Himalayan DistS? «f \ 8 x? ln Atki ™on's "Gazetteer of the 

 (now known as neFnU ?p North - W est Provinces and Oudh " 

 request of M3h R^£^of ro T inceB <»« Agra and Oadh). At the 

 prepared bv Mr T ft? k-, hey anot her revised edition was 

 Survey of Northern w e, / ormer, y Sector of the Botanical 

 Lovell Reeve and On n' and was Published in 1906 by Messrs. 



Winterbottom 



brought up to date ?! . h , the nomenclature of the species 



" Flora of British In d' a ? cor T dance with Sir Joseph Hooker's 

 species discovered suWnL n Xt also includes many additional 



Of the large nu Vari ° US col,ector8 ' 



t R ' l^^^t^ tiS^^i vari f ties d»»«>v««d by 



tf 



Sir R. Strachev, ZZ <Z™>T C ' xea and varieties discc 

 these, Stracheya tibnL „ tnirtv ;t^o bear his name. . _ 

 genus, was found b T him te P fu Se ^ tmg a distinct *** monotypic 

 of Tibet, at an eleva^m or &? Gug ? Valle ^ wit ^ the borders 

 the most interesting noveUv 5 6n thousa nd feet. But perhaps 

 a very minute plant called \h< a botan ical point of view, was 

 the extreme Bimplici^^J 7 "^^ Wresth, which, ow=- - 



y its fl 0ral 8tract has > nted 



owing to 

 ~ much 



