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CCCCXVIII.—BULBOUS VIOLET IN THE HIMALAYAS. 
A very interesting addition to im Flora of British India is due to 
Mr. J. H. Lace, to whose zeal the Herbarium at Kew € many 
valuable contributions from Baluchistan and the North-Western Hima- 
la It consists in the discovery of a curious se bulbous violet in 
Bussahir E au elevation of about 10,50 t is not a new 
species, and it has even been collected before itin the limits of the 
Flora of British India. It was, however, mixed up by Dr. T. Thomson 
in the Flora of British India with another species, and so completely 
lost sight of that it has since been described twice under different 
names. The specimens referred to above as gathered within the limits 
of the Flora of British India were collected by Griffith, probably in 
Bhootan, and by Sir Joseph Hooker, near Lachen, in Sikkim, at 12,000 
feet. Griffith's locality is not ascertainable with certainty, as the labels 
belonging to his specimens have ey, been pam I4 were dis- 
tributed, under No. 231, as Viola Griffthu, H f. & Thoms. 
(whieh name was never published), partly with ike dedication “ East 
peu " and partly ** East Himala aya.” The latter is probably the 
rrect one, and no doubt the vioiet in question is the plant which he 
hem as Viola pusilla in his Private Journals, p. 292, and as 
* Viola sp.— Parvula, floribus A eo hag albis, in grassy spots” in his 
Itinerary Notes, p. 194, No. 1,064, both passages referring to - place 
above Chupcha, in Western Bhootan, at an elevation of 8, 800 fee 
When Dr. Thomson described Eis Viola Hookeri for the Tie of 
British India, he drew the description up partly from these specimens, 
but partly also from specimens which belong to a totally different plant, 
although he was not unaware of there being perhaps two species among 
what he called Viola Hookeri. As this second species was represented 
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the name Viola Hookeri for this plant, which E represented in 
the Kew Herbarium from the following localities : — 1. Bhootan, 
Rydang in ripis (Griffith, No. 236 of the Càtsbpus, and No. 233 of 
the Kew Distribution ; see also his Zfinerary Notes, p. 116, and his 
Private Jouruals, p. 217). 2. Sikkim, Lachen, in woods at 8,000 feet, 
Aug. 3, 1849, and at 10,000 feet, July 9, 1849 (J. D. Hooker). 
3. Sikkim, Khürdon f; at 7, /000 feet (C. B. Clarke, 36,562), and Tongloo, 
at 9,000 feet (C. B. Clarke, 35,734). The other species comprised by 
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not been described since from other localities. It was collected by 
Przewalski, in 1873, and by Potanin, in 1885, in the province of Kansu, 
and described by Maximowier n Viola — in Bull. Acad. Imp. 
T i. Petersburg, xxiii, p. 334 (1877), a n Fl. Tangut., p. 77, 
Other specimens of what I consider "à the same species were 
colton by the Abbé Delavay on Mt. et a men, near Lang-kang, 
in Yun-nan, at an altitude of 10,000 fee These were originally 
ae to Viola Hookeri by “Franchet (m Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
i. (1885), p. 5), and by Hemsley = Forbes and Hemsley, Ind. Fl. 
iones, p. 13), but described as a n w species, as Viola tuberifera, by 
Franchet (in Bull. Soc. Bot. Frane xxxiii. (1886), p. 410, and in 
Plantae Delavayane, p. 70, t. 19). A comparison of Grit dich and 
Hooker's specimens with Parakit s, which ——— the type of 
o their identity. The Bussahir clit. gathered by 
Lied differs. ine the specimens thus referred to Viola bulbosa in no 
