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These wae ne” ve all made at great altitudes in rise ge and 
Northern Tibet of them below 15,000 ft., and some of them 
at 19,000 ft. ie hindi. The highest point at é which flowering 
plants had been found was 19,200 ft. above the level of the sea. 
The plants — by Deasy ind "Pike at altitudes of 19,000 ft. 
and upwards are :—Cvurydalis Hendersoni, Arenaria Stracheyi, Saxi- 
JSraga parva, Sedwm Str. aa yt, Saussurea bracteata, Gentiana tenella, 
G. aquatica, an unnamed species of Astragalus, ‘and an un amed 
species of Uxytropis. These are the greatest altitudes on record 
natural orders are:—Composita, Leguminosae, Crucifere, Ranuncu- 
lacea, and Graminea. The Composite largely predominate, and the 
genus Saussurea is represented by numerous species. 
about a dozen species were shown to illustrate the great diversity 
exhibited by this genus in foliage and infloradt cence. Liliacee and 
e allied orders were pike sparingly pp oi wo - three 
species of Al/iwm occur; one of them, A. Semenovii, in great abun- 
dance up to 17,000 ft. None of the collections contained any species 
of orchid. 
. Pearson’s sinorgior on the Andine Flora had special sehen: 
to Sir Martin Conway’s small collection brought from Ulimani, 
the Bolivian Andes, in 1898. Out of forty-six species of flowerin Sieg 
plants obtained by Sir Martin Conway, seven are from 18,000 ft. or 
above it, two being as high as 18,700 ft. These, the highest Andine 
plants on record, are Malvastrum flabellatum Wedd _ and Deyeuxia 
glacialis Wedd. Thirty-nine species in this collection were found 
above 14,000 ft. ; — pane to thirty-four genera and twenty-one 
natural orders ; fifte n (i.e. about three-eighths of the sallestion} 
are Composite. Of the thirty- -four genera, one only—Blumenbachia 
—is endemic to South America. The species, with one apts fea 
are confined to the Andes, eight or nine of them not being found 
outside Bolivia. In the collection made by Me: Piteserald’ 8 
‘eho in - Aconcagua valleys between 8000 and 14,000 ft., 
ten genera (7. ¢. one- -quarter of the whole) are endemic in So uth 
Sian The contrast between this and the small endemic element 
n the Conway collection from above 14,000 ft. gives additional 
eine to the generalization re the flora of high levels is more 
cosmopolitan than that of low levels. 
Tue Report of the ad Exchange a for 1898 by Mr. 
James Groves has just been published. It contains a number of 
interesting notes upon — forms, some ee shih we ba to 
extract later for the benefit of our readers. It would, we think, 
be helpful if some iain were given of the place where nat 
could be obtained; at present the only address is that of the printers. 
Tux recently issued * _ for compiling the oe, in the 
Department of Printed Books in the British Museum” contain 
much that i is useful and veges to librarians and bibliographers, 
and are serviceable as a guide to the Se on which the entries 
in the Wagons Catalogue are drawn Those who affirm that 
