Introduction. 



The following table gives the ten predominant Orders of 

 flowering plants within the Kumaon area, together with their 

 relative positions in the floras of Simla, the W. Himalaya, the 

 E. Himalaya, British India, and of the whole world. The figures 

 relating to columns 1, 3 and 4, were taken from Sir Joseph 

 Hooker's " Sketch of the Flora of British India," ^ those relating to 

 column 2, from the late Sir Henry CoUett's '' Flora Simlensis," 

 and those of column 5, from Mr. Hemsley's Introduction to his 

 Biol. Cent.-America, vol. i. (1888), p. xv..: — 



A list of the Kumaon genera of flowering plants which contain 

 fifteen or more species is given below. Of the remaining 962 

 Genera there are 530 which contain only a single species : — 



1. Polygonum (46). 



2. Oarex (40). 



3. Habenaria (30). 



4. Saxifraga (26). 



5. Potentilla (25). 



6. Gentiana (21). 



7. Andropogon (21). 



8. Corydalis (20). 



9. Astragalus (20). 

 10. Impatiens (18). 

 n. Sedum(18). 



12. Pedicularis (18). 



13. Ficus (18). 



14. Senecio (17). 



15. Primula (16). 



16. Panicum (16). 



17. Desmodium (15). 



18. Bpllobium (15). 



19. Saussurea (15). 



20. Swertia (15). 



21. Dendrobiura (15). 



Some of the books or pamphlets mentioned below may be found 

 useful in connection with the botany of Kumaon : — 



Brandis, Sir Z>.— Forest Flora of N.W. and C. India (1874). 



Collett. — Flora Simlensis (1902) with illustrations. 



Don, D. — Prodromus Floras Net;alensis (1826). 



Duthie. — Account of a Botanical tour in Kumaon, in Report on the 

 Government Botanical Garden, Saharanpur, for 1884-85, reprinted 

 in Gard. Chron., vol. xxxi. (1886), pp. 277, 299, 371, 456. 



Oamble. — Manual of Indian Timbers (1902). 



Hooker, Sir Joseph. — Himalayan Journals, vols. i. and ii. (1854). 

 — ^ „ „ Flora of British India, vols, i.-vii. (1872-1897). 



Hoolcci-f. and Thomson. — Flora Indioa, vol, i. (1855). 



Jacquenvont, Victor. — Voyage dans I'lnde, vol. v. (1841-46). 



/t'rtnyite/.— Forest Flora of the School Circle, (1901). 



Einy, Sir (?.— List of the Plants of Garhwal, Jaunsar-Bawar and the 

 Dehra Dun, in Atkinson's Gaz., N.W. Prov. and Oudh, vol. x. (1882^ 

 p. 299. ^ " 



Madden, Col. JE. — See footnote on page iii. 



Eoyle, Dr. J. J^.— Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalaya, vols i 

 and ii. (1839). 



1 Sgo descriptive volume of " The Indian Empire," in the new edition of the 

 Imperial Gazetteer of India. 



