604 The Turaee and Outer Mountains of 'Kumaoon. [June, 



the whole of the plants collected, by Mr. M. P. Edgeworth, to whose 

 assistance I am indebted for the original catalogue in the majority of 

 cases, and for his determination of those where alteration is requisite in 

 the present. The completion of the lists is so far interesting as, to the 

 best of my knowledge, they are the first, exhibiting at one view, the 

 grouping of the plants to be found at any given position in these moun- 

 tains. 



At the end will be found an attempt to identify the plants described, 

 but frequently not named by the late Major-General Hardwick, in his 

 tour from Hurdwar to Sreenugur in Gurhwal, in the year 1796, as 

 detailed in the sixth volume of the Asiatic Researches. The General's 

 route did not conduct him by any means over a tract botanically rich, 

 while he omits many plants which must have occurred ; but the paper 

 may be interesting to the Asiatic Society, as tending to elucidate the 

 work of one of its original members, and probably the earliest labourer 

 in the field of Himalayan Botany, as it is to the writer, from the cir- 

 cumstance that the Major-General was his first commanding officer. 



Jiaree, p. 352. Kunthagaon, p. 590. The shrub here inserted as 

 Desmodium ? is Rhynchosia pseudo-cajan, (Decaisne,) known in Gurh- 

 wal as " Bun-tour," of which the specific name is a translation. 



P. 355. The shrub here called Gouania leptostachya ? is, I doubt 

 not, Dr. Wallich's G. nepalensis, and appears to have been first noticed 

 by General Hardwick near Hurdwar, where, as indeed all along the 

 mountains, this common G. leptostachya is abundant in the Kotah 

 Doon, and generally at the base of the mountains, and in the exterior 

 vallies, down to Burmdeo : it is known by the same name (Kala-lugj 

 the black climber) as Berchemia floribunda, which it resembles a good 

 deal in habit. 



Carissa diffusa, (not Carandas,) very abundant on all the outer moun- 

 tains and along their base. 



Nynee Tal, pp. 364— 372— Add— 



Ulmus virgata. 



Heracleum. 



Sanicula elata. 



Torilis elata. 



Bupleurum marginatum. 



Reutera acuminata. 



