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previously detected it at numerous i^oints around Cashmeer, 

 but neither there nor at Goress could I find that it was col- 

 lected as a winter fodder for cattle. My inquiries led me to 

 the belief that this umbelliferous plant is only prized where 

 other herbage is scarce or wantmg, as is the case at Drass. 

 A traveller advancing through the sterile regions of Ladakh 

 towards Cashmeer sees in the Prangos a highly valued agri- 

 cultural product, while another moving from Cashmeer into 

 Tibet finds it neglected. • Goress is mhabited by a tribe of 

 Dardohs, a race distinct in manners and language from the 

 people of Cashmeer and of Tibet. The Kishen Gunga is 

 here formed by two streams flowing from the eastward, the 

 one taking its rise on the borders of Kurtakhcheh, a province 

 of Little Tibet, and the other fi'om the hills towards Him- 

 bass ; but neither of them received any portion of the 

 drainage of Drass, as has been stated by one of the latest 

 authorities. From Goress we ran up the Kurtakhcheh branch 

 in an easterly direction to the village of Zeean, the last place 

 where cultivation is seen, thence to ISTaigoon, Mukbun-i- 

 blangsa and Runtakhcheh. From this point, after passing 

 through the maidan of Noyah, we returned off from the 

 Kishen Gunga in a northerly direction to the foot of Boor- 

 zilla-bal Mountain, part of the lofty ridge which separates 

 the drainage of the Kishen Gunga from that of the Indus. 

 We crossed the pass over extensive beds of snow, and de- 

 scended through a steep and narrow gorge to Sookarun Mur- 

 bul, a bleak and rocky tract abounding in the Tibetian 

 Marmot, which we here saw for the first time ; thence to the 



' MS. Description of the Prangos \ valcle undulato-flexuosas, basi ab utroque 

 pahularid, Lincl., hy Dr. F. \ latere verrucosas expansis. Vitta plu- 



'No detailed description of this cele- ' rimae.tenues^semenomninocircumdaiites. 

 brated plant has yet appeared ; those ' Semen lineare-oblongum, albumine mar- 

 given by Wallich and Lindley having ginibus involuto. CarpopJwrum bipar- 

 been taken from imperfect dry specimens. , titura. JJmheUm umhelhdaque multira- 

 I had frequent opportunities of seeing ; diata;. Involucri utriusqiie foliola sim- 

 the Prangos, in its native state, in all plicia.— Herba perennis, glabra, foliis 

 stages of its growth, in Tibet and tripinnatira-supradeeompositis, segmen- 

 Cashmeer. The following is the de- \ tis linearibus sub divaricatis supra ca- 

 scription which I then made of it. For ' naliculatis, involucri utriusque foliolis 

 the sake of precision, I shall first give \ abbreviatis, floribus luteis polygamis : 

 the characters of the flower and fruit in radialibus cujusque, umbellul* plemm- 

 generic fashion, as if the genus consisted que androgyiiis, centralibus masculis : 

 of the P. pahularia alone. umbellis inferioribus nimc omnino steri- 



' Pranyos Lmd. Flora Medica, p. 56, libus. 

 D.C. Prod. p. 239.— C'a&>«s: margo 5- '\ 'Prangos pahularia, Lind. loc. cit. — 

 dentatus. Pttala ovata, Integra, apice j H«b. passim ad coUes apertos Cashmeer 

 mvoluta. Stiy/opodia lata, convexa, ere- et Tibet. In Cashmeer floret Maio : in 

 nata, demum depressa, in finictu vix pro- valle fluminis Kishen Gunga prope 

 miniila. Styti elnngati, recuria. Friic- Goress florentem legi sub finem Julii. 

 tus elhptico-oblongus, sectione trans- j FructusmaturescitAugnstoetSeptembre. 

 versa subteres, commissura lata. Ma-i- | ' In linguaTibetana "Prangos" velrite 

 carpia a dorso subcompressa, suberosa, ! " Prc'mhqos ;^' sed proprius secund. A.C. 

 jugis priniariis 5 crassis in alas latas de Koro's " ^/trow " nuncupatur.'— [Ed.] 



