2. 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7. 



9 



10 



Table XL 



DISTRICTS; KAMAON, NEPAL. 



Table of distribution for tiie Nepal Himalaya. 



Species. 



1. P. brevifolia 



carnosa 



furfuracea 



gracilis 



megalantha 



mollis 



Scully an a 



8. • siphonantha 



Oederi 



Wallichii 



• » • 



* ♦ • 



• • f 



• • • 



• • • 



Totals 



Endemic. 



• • ■ 



KamaoiL 



T 



• • • 



• • • 



♦•• 



* • 



» * 



• • • 



• • t 



• • • 



• • » 



• » • 



• • # 



• • • 



■ • • 



• • 



• « • 



bet 



• • 



• • 



• • 





1 



1 



• • • 



• • • 



• • • 



Percentage 



• ■ 



• # • 



7 



2 



• - 



70 



200 



Sikkim. 



ft • . 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



.. • 



1 



8 



800 



31 



The district of Sikkim is the only portion of the Eastern Himalaya that h 



as yet 



been thoroughly explored. It is particularly rich in Pedicularcs, probably as rich as any 



area 



of 



qual size in the whole Himalayan province 



As hero considered, the district 



consists of two portions 



a 



Sikkim Proper, which admits of 



simple practical definit 



as the drainage area 



the valley next adjacent 



is geographically part of Bootan 



apart 

 placed in 



of the river Tista and its tributaries, and (£) Chumbi, which is 

 to Sikkim on the east, and which, though politically Tibetan, 



It does not seem desirable to deal with this valley 



from Sikkim, for if treated by itself the districts are unduly multiplied, while if 



ance 



of 



the Bootan-Miri tract of the 

 squaintance with the Alp 



ding paragraph it gives a fictitious appear 



Fl 



of that tract, of which in 



absolutely 





nothing is known 



Moreover 



if the use of th 



inductive method from the evid 



afforded by the districts of the Weste 

 be advanced that the Nepal district 



Himalaya is permissibl 



th 



hypothec 



may 



ds at the Arun river and does not reach the 



Sikkim frontier 

 Menas river a 



whil 



th 



Sikkim district, on the other hand 



d 



includes the whole political region of Bootan 



extends eastward to the 



i and that another 



natural district exists between the Mena 



river 



d the Brahmakund. The evidence 



which the Chumbi valley species 



afford does not conflict with this hypoth 



species have been 



34 



found in Sikkim 



district may 



bject 



ported from it, 



, however, those who 



the 



and of th 



26 



or 76-4 



per cent., are 



Already 



also 



Since, 



to this hypothesis, in 



der Sikkim Prop 



highly natural 



bjoined table the species that occur 



in 



Sikkii 

 indicated 



and have not so far been 



ported from Chumbi 



> 



d vice versa, are duly 



The number of species re 



ported 



from the 



joint area 



is 48 



of these 29 



are endemic, 13 are 



known to extend westward 



d occur either 



in, or to the west of, 



Nepal 

 east. 



while 8 have already been rep 



o 



rted from one or more of the districts to the 



The 'number of endemic species is 



very remarkable 



At the same time it must 



