Introduction. 



brackets) of the collectors or botanists on whose authority they 

 have been included. ^ 



Of the more important contributions to our knowledge of the 

 Kumaon flora within recent times should be mentioned the large 

 ^^idvaluable collection of plants made by the late Colonel 

 '^MH^SisfL, K.E., by whom they were presented to the Saharaupur 

 Herbarium. The plants were collected chiefly in the vicinity of 

 Naini-tal, and amongst them were a few undescribed species. 

 During the summer months of 1883 I explored very carefully the 

 Bhiigirathi or Gangotri Valley, also Jumnotri and the upper 

 portion of the Jumna Valley at elevations between 11,000 and 

 16,000 ft. Also during the three following years (1884-86) I 

 made extensive tours through British Garhwal to N. Kumaon 

 and W. Nepal with my friend Mr. J. E. Eeid, who was at that 

 time Chief Secretary to the Government of the N.W. Provinces 

 and Oudh. As these expeditions were specially planned to enable 

 us to visit as far as possible unexplored ground, we were able to 

 add very considerably to the known flora of' this portion of the 

 Western Himalaya. Some additional novelties were subsequently 

 obtained from that region by means of trained native plant- 

 collectors sent from Saharanpur. 



The following table contains a summary of the Orders, Genera, 

 and Species of the Kumaon, Garhwal, and Tibet specimens in- 

 cluded in the Catalogue, together with the number of such Orders, 

 Genera, and Specie? as extend to China and Britain : — 



* The three Kumaon orders not represented in China are :- 



and DatisceEB. 



-Ochnaceee, Mosringes^, 



' T.A. — Dr. Thomas Anderson ; B. — Sir Dietrich Brandis ; Bl. — Richard Blink- 

 worth (collected in Kumaon for Dr. Wallich) ; C. — C. B. Clarke; Collett — the 

 late Colonel Sir Henry Collett ; D. — Duthie; Dav. — the late Colonel Davidson, 

 who collected largely in the neighbourhood of Naini-tal; B. — the late M. P^ 

 Edgeworth; F. — Dr. Hugh Falconer ; F.B.I. — Sir Joseph Hooker's Fl. Brit. lud. ; 

 J. — Victor Jacquemont; K. — Sir George King; P.W.M.-;-P. W. Mackinnon 

 (chiefly orchids and ferns) ; M. — the late Colonel Madden ; R. — Dr. J. F. Royle ; 

 J.L.S. — Dr. J. Lindsay Stewart; T. — Dr. Thomas Thomson; V. — Major K^ 

 Vioary ; W.— Dr. Wallich. 



