1848.] The Turaee and Outer Mountains of Kumaoon. 417 



The warm exposure of the Ramgur Gallery exhibits the following 

 plants : — 



Amphiraphis cuspidata. 



Osyris nepalensis : " Bukurdhura." " Bukurja." 



Hypericum cernuum : " Ulooa-bena." 



Thalictrum rupestre. 



Leea aspera : " Koomalee." 



Glochidion bifaria : " Mowee," " Byr-mowee." " Bukulwa." 



Cedrela serrata : " Dul," " Dula." 



Vitis rugosa : " Assoujia." " Puhur-phoota." The first referring 

 to the season, Sept.-Oct., when the grapes ripen, which are edible ; the 

 second means " mountain-splitter/' from the habitat of the plant. It is 

 also common on the crags of Motesur, Bandunee Devee, Binsur ; and is 

 the same which in J. A. S. March 1847, p. 242, is termed V. macro- 

 phylla. But there is no need for a new name ; it is well- described by 

 Dr. Wallich in the Flora Indica, with this exception that (in Kumaon 

 at least), it does not inhabit " mountain and other forests," but open 

 warm crags. Wight and Arnott (Prodromus 131), and Boyle (Illus- 

 trations, 145), identify it with V. lanata, Roxb. The two plants, how- 

 ever, are perfectly distinct, and never confounded by the people here. 

 V. lanata, " Poorain," celebrated amongst them for the abundance of 

 sap yielded by its stock in spring (as V. latifolia and rosea are in the 

 Bhabur) chiefly affects the. warm vallies, from 4000 to 5000 feet, flour- 

 ishing by the streams, and climbing over high trees. It flowers in 

 May, with pale yellow petals, cohering at the apex, and in that form, 

 heaved off by the stamens. 



V. rugosa, on the contrary, prefers the most exposed crags, over and 

 amongst which it creeps but never climbs, at from 5000 to 6500 feet or 

 more, where V. lanata becomes rare. The stems rarely exceed six feet 

 in length, and, as Wallich observes, the leaves rival in size those of the 

 common Burdock or the Rhubarb. The flowers do not appear till 



general introduction to the study, followed by a detail of the orders and genera, after 

 the Natural System, comprising most of those indigenous to the upper provinces of India 

 and the Himalaya. The work still languishes in MS. the expenses of printing being be- 

 yond the author's means. With some previous supervision, it is deserving the attention 

 and patronage of the Asiatic or any other Society interested in the progress of Botany in 

 India, amongst the Indians. 



