458 Some Account of Benthamia fraglfera, fyc. 



of Cornus capitata in the Flora Indica, and figured by him in plate 

 214 of his splendid work, Plantae Asiaticae Rariores; the fruit 

 being represented only in an unripe state. It was found by him 

 on the top of Chundraghiry, a mountain of Nipal, and was subse- 

 quently sent him from the mountains of Kamaon and Sirmore. The 

 plant is described as being about the size of an apple-tree, flowering 

 in June, and ripening its fruit in October. It was no doubt from one 

 of these localities that the seed was obtained by Sir Anthony 

 Buller, from which plants were raised in 1825 in the garden of 

 J. H. Tremayne, Esq. at Heligan in Cornwall, where they are 

 described as being hardy evergreens, flowering in great profusion in 

 summer and ripening their fruit in the autumn. From a drawing 

 and specimens of the fruit sent from this garden a figure of both 

 the flower and fruit was given in the Botanical Register ; where, 

 in consequence of the number of points in which both differ from 

 the ordinary species of Cornus, it was determined to constitute the 

 new genus Benthamia. 



I have found this shrub in several situations in the tract of 

 the Himalayas which extends from the Ganges to the Sutlej 

 river, or from N. lat. 30° to 31^°, but especially on the Mussooree 

 and Choor mountains, and in the neighbourhood of Kotgurh, at 

 elevations of from 6500 to 8000 feet, flowering in May and 

 June, and ripening its fruit in October. At the latter heights 

 it is seen in conjunction with species of Sorbus, Cotoneaster, and 

 Crataegus, with Quercus elastica, Thymus Serpyllum, and other 

 plants found only where there is considerable cold in winter and 

 moderate heat in summer. 



Among the places which have been mentioned as localities of 

 Benthamia fragifera, Mussooree is that with which I am best ac- 

 quainted, as being the nearest point, though fifty miles distant, from 

 the Botanic Garden at Saharunpore, where there was a moderate 

 temperature ; an experimental nursery was established for the intro- 



