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Oil Gentuinu coronala^ Royle. 



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nver (King!). State of Tehri-Garh wal. — Taulea under 

 Srikanta in the Bhagirathi valley at 13,000-14,000 ft. (Dutlne, 



456 ! ) ; Changsil range, 

 Changsil at 12,000 ft. 



the sources of the Tons 



Dun, 12.000-13,000 ft. 



(Rogers !) ; 

 District 



(Rogers!); Harke 

 Kedarkanta at 12,000 ft. 



(Duthie, 



12,000-18,000 ft. (Duthie, 14518 [); 

 (Gamble, 24897!); Harke Dun, near 

 river, at 12,000 ft, 

 (Gamble!); 

 Kedarkanta at 11,000 ft. (Duthie, 1190 ! ), 

 of Dehra Du n — Mussooree ( Royle ! ) . Simla 

 Hill States. Bashahr, at Yangparang, 10,000-12,800 ft. (Lace, 

 951!); Marale, 11,000-12,800 ft. (Browne! Watt, 13,571!), 

 Kangra District. — Lahul, on the Chandra valley side of the 

 Rotang pass, at 12,000 ft. (Holland !). 



These localities are at various distances round the peak of 

 Kedarkanta. The Almora district locality is 140 miles south- 

 east : Taulea is 35 miles east : Harke Dun is 15 miles north-east : 

 Mussooree is 40 miles in a bee-line south; Changsil is 15 miles 

 distant across the valley of the Tons in a north-westerly direc- 

 tion ; Marale is in the same direction across this valley and the 

 valley of the Pabar at a distance o£ 35 miles : and the Rotang 

 pass is in the same direction, but at the much greater distance 

 of 115 miles from Kedarkanta. 



The altitude of the lowest of these localities, that in the Almora 

 district, is somewhere under 7,000 ft. ; the next to it, if an accurate 

 designation, is Royle's locality " Mussooree " : there the hills equally 

 do not attain the elevation that the plant usually inhabits. The 



eneral 



altitude would seem to be about 



000 



The Almora district locality is a most peculiar one, for tlie 

 whole of the country, in which it lies, is a complex of ridges 

 covered by oak forest and not rising as high as 7,000 feet. 



Flowers that are fimbriate and flowers that are not fimbriate 

 are distzubuted as follows : — 



Fimbriate^ Harara, Mussooree, Kedarkanta^ Changsil and Yang- 

 parang. 

 Not fimbriate ; Taulea, Harke Dun, Marale and Rotang pass. 



There is no marked geographical arrangement about this. 



It is iutei-esting to note that the flowers in these plants have 

 trenerally rather long corolla tubes; and that the Almora district 

 specimen has the longest of all- 



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