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of the province, is elevated 5500 feet, the lake of Naini-tal 

 6500, of Bhim-tal 4000. Binsar, a mountain of the interior 

 region and a well known botanical station, is elevated, we 

 believe, about 7500. 



For further particulars we must refer to Captain E. Stra- 

 chey's account of the provinces of Kumaon and Garhwal in the 

 Journal of the Geographical Society of London (May, 1851) . 



The vegetation of Kumaon appears to afford rather a rapid 

 transition from the humidity of Nipal to the drier provinces 

 further west. Its flora, according to Strachey's and Winter- 

 bottom's excellent collections, includes fully two thousand 

 flowering plants, — a much larger number than are to be found 

 in an equal area anywhere to the westward, though consider- 

 ably fewer than to the eastward. 



Amongst the natural orders we have examined in detail, 

 the following species find their eastern limit in Kumaon, so 

 far as is at present known : 



Thalictrum paucijlorum. Corydalis Govaniana. 

 Oxygraphis polypetala. „ flabellata. 



Ranunculus hirtellus. Pyrus haccata. 



„ arvensis. TIosvl pimpinell&folia. 



Trollius acaulis. Euhus saxatilis. 



Aquilegia vulgaris. Potentilla alpestris. 



Delphinium denudatum. Geum urbanum. 



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incanum. Spiraea sorbifoUa. 



ranunculifolium. Daphne oleoidcs. 



Kashmirianum. Celtis eriocarpa. 



Aconitum Lycoctonum. Corylus Coliirna. 



„ heterophyllum. Quercus Janata. 



Paeonia officinalis. Cedrus Deodara. 



Papaver dubium. Cupressus torulosa. 



Meconopsis aculeata. Juniperus communis. 



Of Eastern Himalayan plants which have not hitherto 

 been traced to the westward of Kumaon there are : 



Clematis grewiceflora. Thalictrum clegans. 



„ acuminata. „ glyphocarpum 



