128 LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
which are new to science. Next come Chenopodiacee with 39 spe- 
cies, Labiate with 85, Boraginacee with 82, Umbellifere with 30, 
wi 80 species, Rosacee with 27, 
Liliacee with 26, Euphorbiacee with 16, Polygonacee with 16, 
Falconeri, an pilasia ammophila, with several of the Cheno- 
odiaceous shrubs found in the arid Tibetan region. The flora 
plants, as Acanthophyllum, Astragalus, Onobrychis, &c., assuming a 
peculiar habit, forming dense solid bushes, which look like small 
knolls or hummocks. Above their level occurred a belt of Huphorbia 
exactly as seen in Kashmir and Kurrum, and sti higher the soil 
was covered with a close pasturage of Pedicwlaris, Alyssum Persicum, 
Erysimum persepolitanum, and <Astragali. At 7000 ft. the soil 
became absolutely sterile. What are generally understood as being 
subalpine forms, as Rhewm Ribes, a Primula and a Gentian, the only 
one I met with extended down as low as 2000 ft. in some places. 
The author gave a sketch of the physical peculiarities of the region 
— ; he alluded to the agricultural and horticultural products, 
and ma 
.. with Lactuca orientalis, Pteropyrum Aucherti, Calligonum, 
Atraphazxis, Ruta, Stellaria, Convolvulus erinaceus and fruticosus, and 
Nitraria, with Cousinias and Centaureas, and Hphedra formed a low 
scrub. Where there was any indication of moisture, as in the vi- 
cinity of cultivation, Ammothamnus Rehmanni and Sophora pachycarpa, 
with Zygophylium Fabago, and Cleome coluteoides having curiously 
inflated panphid coloured fruit, were in abundance ; and in certain 
localities where the clay soil was largely charged with saline matter 
cut up into low irregular mounds—one could scarcely cal 
hills—a curious plant, Miltianthus portulacoides, was found. 
