STEWART: FLORA OF LADAK, WESTERN TIBET 585 
two inches in diameter. The wild rhubarb is the only Rupshu 
plant with good sized leaves. They are thick and very coriaceous. 
The wind on the passes is so terrible that the plants that 
grow on the very top are prostrate and scarcely an inch high 
Fic. 
2. Ashrubby pea, Caragana pygmea DC., the only conspicuous plant in large 
sections of Western Tibet, above an altitude of 14,000 feet. 
te very small leaves and flowers. Examples are Oxytropis 
ensa, Potentilla bifurca, P. sericea and Nepeta lengibracteata. 
Potamogeton pectinatus Polygonum sibiricum 
i. riglochin maritima Chenopodium album 
Stipa barbata Atriplex crassifolia 
Deschampsia caespitosa a.  yosea 
Poa pratensis Eurotia ceratioides 
nemoralis ligulata Salsola collina 
Festuca rubra Stellaria graminea 
B nce ‘s ‘ . 
romus crinitus Arenaria musciformts 
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s holosteoides 
barbatus 
‘“ macrostachys Lychnis macrorhiza 
Kobresia schoenoides “  brachypetala 
Carex Moorcroftii Isopyrum grandiflorum 
Aquilegia vulgaris viscosa 
Delphinium Brunonianum 
Ranunculus pulchellus 
Urtica hyperborea 
Rheum spiciforme 
Polygonum tortuosum 
