iv Introduction. 



desires to recognize the continued assistance afforded to him in 

 the preparation of the Catalogue by Sir J./D. Hoolier, Mr. C. B. 

 Clarke, and the late Mr. C. W. Hope ; also§|fe Mr. C. H. Wright 

 and other members of the Kew Herbarium staff. 



The herbarium^ which included over 2,000 species, was dis- 

 tributed in 1852-53 to the Hookerian 'Herbarium, the 33ritish 

 Museum, the Linnean Society, and to some foreign museums, 

 carefully ticketed with notes of the locality and elevation at 

 which the specimens were found. A provisionally named cata- 

 logue, prepared by Sir E. Strachey, was printed and copies were 

 sent to the herbaria to which sets of the plants had been pre- 

 sented.i 



The original Catalogue of the Strachey and Winterbottom 

 collections, as drawn up by Sir K. Strachey, was reprinted and 

 first published in 1882 in Atkinson's Gazetteer of the Himalayan 

 districts of the N.W.' Provinces and Oudh. The manuscript of 

 the present Catalogue, which may be regarded as the second 

 edition, was made oVer to me by Sir Eichard Strachey about two 

 years ago for final revision. The form originally given to it 

 (which has been retained) was designed rather to assist in recog- 

 nizing the plants than to afford a scientific enumeration of them. 

 The arrangement of the Orders, Genera and Species of the 

 Flowering Plants is in accordance with that adopted in Sir 

 Joseph Hooker's " Plora of British India." The ferns were named 

 and arranged by the late Mr. C. W. Hope ; the Hepaticete and 

 mosses were undertaken by Mr. C. H. Wright, following the plan 

 adopted by Mr. W. Mitten in his paper published in the Journal 

 of the Linnean Society, vol. v. (1859). The lichens were named 

 by Mr. Churchill Babington at about the same time, and have not 

 since been revised. Neither fungi nor algse were collected. 



When the Catalogue was published in 1882 only two volumes 

 and a portion of vol. iii. of the " Flora of British India " had 

 appeared ; and as thirty-four years have elapsed since the latter 

 work was commenced, it is not surprising to find in the new list 

 considerable alterations in nomenclature. For the benefit of 

 those who may wish to verify in some of the new names the 

 identifications of many of the discarded names of the old cata- 

 logue, an alphabetically arranged list of equivalents has been 

 prepared, and will be found on pages 248-261, immediately 

 preceding the Index to the Orders and Genera. 



In addition to the species which constituted the original S. 

 and W. Herbarium, this Catalogue contains the results of previous 

 and subsequent botanical exploration extending from the time of 

 Wallich, Eoyle, Falconer, Blinkworth, Jacquemont, Edgeworth, 

 Thomson, &c., and up to a comparatively recent period. The 

 additional species are indicated by the names or initials (within 



1 Concerning the S. and W. collections the following passage occurs on page 65 

 of the Introduction to Hooker and Thomson's ".Flora Indica," published in 

 1855: — "The heautiful preservation of the specimens and the fulness and 

 accuracy with which they are ticketed, renders this herbarium the most valuable 

 for its size that has ever been distributed from India." 



