48 Account of the Botanic Garden at Seharanpur. [Feb. 



labours from the neighbouring hills into the Dehra Dun, and from 

 that into the Himalayan mountains, and even into Kashmir. 



The collection, as may be seen by the accompanying abstract of the 

 catalogues, consists of upwards of 4000 species, and probably amount 

 to about 30,000 specimens, independent of a complete set left with my 

 successor, Dr. Falconer, at Seharanpur. 



These have been chiefly collected in the northern provinces of India ? 

 but contain, of course, specimens of the plants which have been sent from 

 the Calcutta to the Seharanpur Botanic Garden. 



In the northern provinces I include specimens of the plants indigen- 

 ous in the tract of country running along the Ganges and Jumna from 

 Allahabad up to the Satlej, with those growing on the low range of 

 hills which skirt the Himalaya, as well as those of the Dehra Dun. 

 Among those of the two latter tracts are many more of a European 

 than an Indian type. Another series consists of plants of that part 

 of the Himalayan range extending from the plain to the sources of 

 the Ganges and Jumna, and included between the former river to the 

 east and the Satlej to the west. A third series consist of plants from 

 Kanawar, or the tract of country lying along both sides of the Satlej 

 within the British territories, but beyond the snowy passes of the 

 Himalaya ; but the most interesting collection is, perhaps, that which has 

 been obtained from the valley of Kashmir and the mountains in its 

 vicinity and on the road leading to it. 



These collections have been formed since 1824, as previous to that 

 the garden itself required the labours of the whole establishment for its 

 internal improvement and management. In 1825, I first endeavoured 

 to get a collection of specimens from Kanawar, but the gardeners 

 whom I sent, unfortunately, ran away ; the late Lieutenant Maxwell, 

 of H. M.'s 1 1th Dragoons, who had promised to look after them, brought 

 down a collection of about 100 species, nearly the whole of which were 

 new. A much larger collection has been obtained in 1831. 



The plants from Kashmir were first procured in 1828, by sending 

 two of the gardeners belonging to the Seharanpur establishment along 

 with the northern merchants who bring down fruit, &c. for sale. In 

 the following year or 1829, the merchants themselves brought me down 

 a number of dried specimens in a book which I had given them for the 

 purpose, but these were generally duplicates of the former year. Last 

 year I again sent two of the establishment, but they brought an in- 

 different collection in point of numbers, though the specimens were 

 generally large and well dried. By these means I also obtained living 

 bulbs of the Saffron of commerce, as well as of the plant furnishing the 



