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INDEX TO THE INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. 



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Panipat rain-fall (Upper Gangetic 



plain) 161 



Panjab, number of species in . . 93 



Province of . . . . .156 



Panjnad 156 



Papaver dubiuni 109 



hybridum 109 



nudicaule 220 



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Parabeena sagittata 189 



Parang (West Tibet) .... 223 



Pass (West Tibet) . . 223 



Parietaria officinalis Ill 



Paris polyphylla .... 107, 238 



Paritium 249 



Parish, Lieut., Himalayan plants 73 



Parrya 221 



Parasnath (Bahar) . . . 144, 145 



Pedalium Murex 165 



Pedicularis 100,106 



Peganum Harmala 99, 113, 153, 161 

 Pegu, Province of ..... 246 



Pemberton, Major 176 



Penang (Malayan Peninsula) . 250 

 Penar river (Mysore) .... 135 

 Peninsular chain . . . . 116, 117 

 Peninsula of India, comparative 



paucity of species in plains of . 27 

 Pepper, western limit of . . .192 

 Peristrophe bicaliculata . . .153 



Perowskia 219 



Phaca frigida note 107 



Pharbitis Nil 1 53 



Pharus aristatus 242 



Phoebe lanceolata ..... 201 



pallida 201 



paniculata 189 



Phoenix acaulis .... 145, 186 



farinifera 120,125 



paludosa 119, 166 



sylvestris . . . 137,162,205 



Photinia 98,116 



dubia 189 



integrifolia 189 



Physiology, its high rank as a 

 branch of Botanical science , 17 



mistaken views of its x 



position as an elementary branch 



of study 18 



Phytocrenea? ...#... 252 

 Picea Webbiana, also see Abies 



178, 180 



Picris hieracioides 110 



Pieris formosa ...... 189 



villosa 202 



Pind Dadan Khan (Panjab) . . 157 







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Pines, absence of, in Peninsula of 



Hindostan 37 



variation of 33 



Pinus excelsa . . 178, 188, 194, 257 

 Gerardiana . . . 193, 207, 257 

 lonfifolia .... 177, 180, 257 



Sinensis 195,235 



Piper . . . , 95 



Pir-Panjal (Kashmir) .... 210 



Pistia 242 



Piti (West Tibet) 223 



Pittosporum 103, 126 



Plains of India poor in species . 94 



Planes 212 



Plantains 180 



Plants, known, exaggerated esti- 

 mates of number of . . . 29, 38 



Plectocomia 180 



Plectranthus 96 



rugosus 219 



Poa alpina . . . . # . .112 



annua . 112, 158 



nemoralis 112 



pratensis 112 



Podocarpus . . 98, 115, 180, 195 



macrophylla 189 



Podophyllum Emodi . . 114,212 



Podostemon 236 



Pisonia 133 



Polanisia note 113 



Polemonium ceeruleum . . . .110 



Polygona 97 



Polygonatum 238 



Polygonum aviculare . . . .111 



Bistorta Ill 



Hydropiper Ill 



viviparum Ill 



Polypogon Monspeliensis . . .112 



Polyosma 235 



Pongamia 244 



Poonah, see Punah . . . . ,138 

 Poplar, varieties of ..... 34 



Populus alba 219 



balsamifera .... note 107 



ciliata 193 



Euphratica . 99, 113, 153, 158, 



218, 226, 256 

 nigra 219 



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Potamogeton crispus . . . .111 



gramineus HI 



natans HI, 153 



pectinatus 153 



perfoliatus . 1H 



Potentilla alpestris 200 



ambigua 207 



