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24. Notes on the Pollination of Flowers in India. Note 
No. 6. The Spring Flora in the Simla Hills. 
By I. H. Burk. 
1 this paper I put together wayside notes made between 
May 6th and May 24th, 1906, on a journey from Simla wid Erki 
i Suket, 
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Kalka at the foot of the hills. The daily marches, though under- 
taken for quite other purposes than the collecting of observations 
on flowers, afforded abundant opportunities for making them. 
The climates passed through ranged from spring with melting 
snow to the heat of the Panjab approaching its greatest, At 
ohne feet wheat was not in ear: at 2,000 feet the wheat-harvest 
was: over: at 8, feet Fragaria indica was just in flower and 
Rubus ellipticus in bud: at 2,500 feet both were in fruit. 
Datura amg — which, at 3,000 feet, bore nearly ripe fruits, at 
8,000 feet w t germinating. The weather at this season is 
bright, ats gene thunder-showers, and with dry south 
winds from the hot plains. 
I put beforethe reader only a few facts, hoping to be able to add 
to them at some future date, but not knowing when a third oppor- 
tunity may occur of marching through the same hills. In the first 
by Dr. N. Annandale, and to him I owe some of the Sa anats 
and the determinations of many of the insects. To Col ne 
Bingham I am very greatly indebted for the ee = yaa 
tera, and for the names of Syrphids to Mr. E. Bru 
Hill-slopes about Simla that face in ditaent. ‘ways show 
great eee As Thomson says (Kashmir and Western 
nset. 
On April 29th, 1907, I reached 9,500 feet over Matiana: this 
was my highest. There, among the snow ag were in bloom 
Primula denticulata and Viburnum fetens. The Primula 
