208 
E. long. at an elevation of about 16,500 ft. It contains sixty-eight 
species, including one fern and two funguses, belonging to for wala even 
genera and t twenty-five natural orders ; proportions similar to those of. 
typical insular floras. Ten of the species have been described as "n; 
and, as may be gathered from the enumeration, most of the others. 
belong to the region, or extend only to the Himalayas and the lofty 
mountains of Western China. A few, such as Aconitum Napellus 
Lychnis apetala, Potentilla. “fruticosa, MHopketiem verticillatum, 
Leontopodium alpinum, Turaxacum palustre, Polygonum viviparum 
and Carex ustulata, have a wilde range. A fe thers extend to 
Siberia. Coming to the genera, there is complete evidence that the 
P 
British, and most of the others have a wi idot range. ‘The regional and 
local genera are : Meconopsis, Dilophia, Pleurospermu m, Cremanthodium 
(better treated as a section of Senecio), Oreosolen, Rheum and Little- 
dalea; the last a very pretty and distinct new genus of grasses. 
species, a orca of the northern Sikkim Himalaya, was previously only 
imperfectly k 
Some farter” remarks on this collection, by the ad are repro- 
duced in the current volume of the Bulletin, pp. 99-100. 
RANUNCULACEX. 
Anemone imbricata, Maxim. Fl. Tangut. p. 8. t 
A diminutive species restricted to Tibet, and en collected by 
Przewalsky and Rockhill only. 
Delphinium brunonianum, Royle, Illustr. Bot. Himal. p. 56, Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i., p. 27; Bot. Mag. t. 5461. 
This handsome species is common in the Ladak and Karakoram 
regions, 
Delphinium Pylzowi, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Pétersb. xxiii. (1877), 
p. 307; Regel's Gartenfl. 1876, p. 289, t. 879. 
Amdo, i in western Kansuh, AN ese Pi and Eastern Tibet, Rockhill. 
Aconitum Napellus, Z. var.; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i 
This very eres plant i is ined all round the at ier hemisphere, 
We have not exactly matched Mr. Littledale's specimen, which i 
remarkable in siete a € leafy intlorescence. 
PAPAYERACEJEF. 
Meconopsis LT xs J- 9 Thoms. Fl. Ind. i; p. 2527; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1, p. 118. 
mm Himalaya and collected in Tibet, both by Thorold and 
Rockhill 
Mecon integrifolia, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
xxxviii. (1686), p. 389; Catheartia aaiae Maxim. Mél. Biol. ix. 
713. 
i This exceedingly showy plant was- previously known in western 
unnan and Szechuen, and north-western Kansuh or Tan 
FuMARIACEX. 
: s Lol Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx., p. 108 (1895) ; 
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