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verticillas pauciflora, flos. curvatus. Calyx subsequal, lab superior 

 albus horizontal, bilobo, inferiora porrecto, lobis lateral ob- 

 longis, centrale maximo, obcordato, bilobo, pallida caerulescent, 

 genitalibus, semiexsertis. Antheris, arcuxitum, appoximatis, 

 brunneis. Stigmata sub sequant. 



In fields Bala Chugur. 

 Violse sp. — V. Patrinii facie. Estolonif, fol. e basi cordato ia- 

 terdum sub hastat, ablonga, flore carneo pulcherra purpureo- 

 venosa, pet 2 inferior lateral basi purpurea. On banks of fields 

 not common Bala Chugur. 



Iris sp Habitu typicali nempe rhizomatosa, fol. ensiformi- 



bus equitant glauces, flos amplus (axi foliis breviori), saturato 

 azurea 



Pet exter reflex, intern erectis connivent, barba alba 

 Withered specimens from Kafiristhan. 



Pinus. — Nukhtur of the Aflghans, Avhor vasta, habitu laricis 

 quodommoda formosa, ramis tabularibus, inferior depend enti- 

 bus, ramulis senioribus abbreviatis dense foliaceis, junioribus 

 elongatis. sparse foliosis (or rather,) ramis novellis (apice) elon- 

 gatis, foliis sparsis, ramulis abbreviatis semperque foliis densis, 

 petiolis persist, asperis. Faliis solitariis : subteretibus e basi 

 ad apice gradatum, incrassat in petiolo fusco brevi distinct 

 articulatis, vagina nulla. Conis masculis oblongis ovatis, mag- 

 nis, squamis dense imbricatis, apice rotundatis, 



Strobilis faem erectis, late oblongo ovatis, apice depressis, 

 squamis latissimis margine subinflexis. Cedroideis, Sem ferru- 

 gineis, pulchre caeruleo caeseis. 



Very common on mountains about Bala Chugur, forming 

 large forests ; limit inferior 6500 ft. superior may be guessed 

 at 9000, to 10000 ft. It is this species which forms the forests 

 visible from Pushut, P. excelsa being said to be very rare. 

 The male cones seen were only detached ones. This is not used 

 for fuel. Baloot being preferred. It is a beautiful and occa- 

 sionally a grand tree, even towards its inferior limits. 



This makes the third Aff*ghan Pinus known to me, or the 

 4th, including P. excelsa. 



Geranii sp. — Habitu G. Robertiani, fl. laete rosei parva under 

 hedges etc Otipore. 



