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haps from some error in the labelling of Dr. Hamilton's Herbarium, 

 the Prodromus exhibits the most incongruous assemblage of plants. 



Aplotaxis carthamoides, a very bitter plant, probably A. scaposa of 

 Mr. Edgeworth, Serratula carthamoides, Roxb. and Cnicus heteromal- 

 lus of Don. 



Serratula pallida. Centaurea lanata, Roxb. III. 444, seems to be 

 a Calcutta edition of this. 



Dicrocephala gracilis. 



Blainvillea latifolia. 



Sonchus arvensis. 



Melanoseris cyaneus, (not Mulgedium robustum.) It is occasionally 

 white. 



Dipsacus inermis 0, Wallich, mitis, Don, is abundant everywhere 

 from 5000 feet, (Almorah,) to above 8700 (Cheenur), while D. inermis, 

 a , Wallich, strictus, Don, occurs at Kathmandoo (4500), Koorpaka, 

 (5000) and on Cheenur at 8000, but I consider it merely a variety of 

 the first, as every gradation in the number of lobes to the leaf, and 

 every variation in the number of ridges to the stem may be observed in 

 these supposed species. Under this view, the plant affords a striking 

 instance of depression in its habitat as we travel to the S. E., barely 

 occurring at 8000 feet, Simlah, but at 4500 or thereabouts, in Nepal, 

 according to Dr. Wallich. 



Valeriana elata. 



Gentiana capitata and pedicellata. G. Kurroo, so common on the 

 limestone crags of Mussooree, has not hitherto occurred here. 



Ophelia (Agathotes) cherayita. The tetramerous, purple-flowered 

 variety (with a tendency, however, to greenish-yellow) mentioned by 

 Dr. Royle, occurs from 7000 to 9000 feet, in shady woods with north- 

 ern aspect, on Cheenur, Binsur, Gagur Pass, Mussooree, Simlah, and 

 Nagkunda ; and though called by Dr. Lindley, " a Himalayan annual," 

 is in truth, the only perennial cherayita with which I am acquainted. 

 The stem is sometimes five feet high, and much branched ; the root 

 long, forked, and pale yellow ; the root-leaves, petioled, and resembling 

 those of Plantago ; the whole exceedingly bitter ; but the plant is not 

 very abundant ; and it is probable that the annual species, purpuras- 

 cens, cordata, alata, angustifolia, &c, supply the chief portion of what 

 is exported to the plains. 



