from the Kingdom of Nepal. 45 1 



lianthus Himalayanus is constituted (Linn. Trans, xx. 417) from 

 a garden specimen of J/, major g:ro\vn at Ilawalbagh, near AI- 

 raorah, the only individual of the genus in Kumaon. In short, 

 if we take as criteria the genera Viburnum, Lonicern*, Cirsium, 

 and others in DeCandolle's Prodromus, one-fourth of his Hima- 

 layan species have no reality independent of the different names 

 imposed by different botanists, and adopted as species without 

 examination. 



Alhat/i Maurorum is interesting as the shrub which yields 

 the 'Manna' of N. Persia, Bokhara, and Samarkand, called 

 Tarangabin or Taranjabin ; the plant itself being Khar-i-Shutar 

 and Ushtar-Khar, i. e. Camel Thorn. The Manna of Mount 

 Sinai, a product of Tamarix gallica, is also formed in Louristan 

 and Irak, where it is called Gazangabin or Gazanjabin. The 

 names are all Persian. 



Saxifraga liyulata, Wall. 



S. Pacumbis, Ham. MSS. in Don, Prod. 209. Dr. Hamil- 

 ton's specific name, I doubt not, is a misprint for Pashan-bhed, 

 its Sanscrit designation (pronounced Pakhan-bhedin in the 

 mountains), still preserved as Pakhan-bhed in Nepal and Gar- 

 hwal : so Royle, J. A. S. B. Oct. 1832, No. 12J . H. H. Wilson 

 erroneously explains the Sanscrit term by Plectrunthus scutella- 

 rioides. It signifies ' Rock- splitter '; and it is the more inter- 

 esting that the name should in this remote district be applied 

 to a species of our genus Saxifraga, since Pliny (H. N. xxii. 30) 

 refers Saxifragum to Asplenium Trichomanes, or Adiantum Ca- 

 pillus- Veneris : " calculos e corpore mire pellit frangitque, uti- 

 que nigrum. Qua de caussa potius, quam quod in saxis nasce- 

 retur, a nostris saxifragum adpellatum credidcrim.'' 



Catalogue, 771. Calutropis procera. Habitat in arenosi.s 

 Mithilae, Magadha, et Cosalse. 



The distribution of this plant (C. Hamiltunii, Wight, Coutrib. 

 53) is ill understood. Abundant in the south of Syria (Beid-el- 

 osshar). Northern Africa, and all the warmer regions of Asia, I 

 traced it down the Ganges to Nadiya in Bengal, where it appa- 

 rently ceases. It appears to have escaped the observation of 

 Roxburgh, and is not mentioned in his ' Flora Indica.' The 

 allied species, C. gigantea, is unknown in Northern India, ex- 

 cept at the base of the Himalaya below Naini Tal in Kumaon, 

 where for some miles it occurs in profusion : thence southward 

 I met with it wild till ten or fifteen miles below Rajmahal, 

 from which to Nadiya both species are intermingled, C. gigantea 



* Lonicera quinqucloculnris of Ilardwick and Roxburgh (DC. iv. 338. 

 no. 50) is L. diversifolia, Wall. (no. 24, 3.34), as I ascertained on tlie spot 

 where the General discovered it. E.vclude " rarais volubilibus." 



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