CHARLES BARON CLARKE 873 
the Composite Indice. In this year, also, he, at his own cost, 
reprinted eerie Carey’s edition of Roxburgh’s Flora Indica. 
Early in 1875 he enus Leea in a paper which was 
wiilideli ectitly ae Bet we in these pages 
In 1875 C nsferred to the Northern Division of 
his cen 
and in 1876 was able to pay a spring visit to the Chola and 
other eastern passes, and to study the “Sikkim Miia ons in 
situ. The cold weather which intervened between his Jon ngri 
engal. His attention was now especially given to the Glumacea@ 
asawhole. During this tour he succeeded in seeing his Composite 
Indice through the press. When the tour was over, Clarke ob- 
visit to Kashmir and the Karakoram range, his longest and most 
arduous individual journey. On his return, Clarke again spent the 
cold season (1876-77) on tour in North Bengal. During this period 
his interest in Glumacee became more particularly limited to the 
Cyperacee, which from this time continued to be his favourite 
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In March, 1877, he came to Europe on arb a and, after a 
short visit to Italy, settled down in June to work at Kew on his 
extensive collections, which now amounted to fiom e 25,000 numbers, 
Se about 5000 species; the whole he edaanted to the 
Kew Herbarium. In connection with his work Clarke wrote the 
accounts of se ofeial natural families for the Flora of British India; 
Instead of returning to India on the expi ry 0 of his leave in 1879, 
Clarke was placed on special duty in England to assist Sir beige 
lepton, the wi laste of the rest of the Flora. During this 
1879" Clarks visite a aret in obs study the material of the 
family Rubiacee on behalf of aa Pore of British India, and of the 
family Conmeynacen for a m ph which he wrote for De Can- 
dolle’s Monographie Phanerogemaran published in 1881. In 1882 
he pai aie a ‘ aotae visit to Geneva to study the Cyrtandracee, which 
he also monographed for De Candolle; this work was published 
in 1883 
When his deputation ni toe Clarke returned to India. On 
arriving, he was again posted to the Presidency division, and 
his headquarters at Calcutta ed able to make botanical excursions 
to Jessore and elsewhere in the Bengal plain, and to pay a long 
official visit to Chutia Nagpur, ft the course of which he ascended 
