CHAPTER III. 
LIST OF PLANTS FOUND IN TIBET AND YARKAND DURING THE 
EXPEDITION OF 1870. 
Those found in Ydrkand are marked with an *. 
RANUNCULACE^. 
* 1. Clematis orientalise Linn. — Common in Ladak 
from 9 to 14,000 feet. Also in Yarkand along the Kara- 
kash valley from 11 to 14,000 feet, where it usually had a 
very peculiar habit, being often a very low rounded bush 
with the flowers on long erect peduncles ; this alteration in 
habit is probably owing to the plants being cut down by 
the Kirghiz or eaten down by their yaks every season 
wherever the Kirghiz or traders encamp. 
* 2. Clematis orientalis, Linn., var. acutifolia, H. f. 
& T. — This form was common in Yarkand, in the ravines 
above Sanju, from 7 to 10,000 feet, and was once got, but 
not in flower, near Mulbek, in Ladak, at about 10,000 feet. 
In habit it resembles the ordinary form, and the leaves are 
as in var. acutifolia, but in the Yarkand specimens the 
flowers are very small, the sepals being almost as short as 
the stamens in some flowers, but in others more than twice 
as long. North of the Sanju Pass this form only was 
noticed, whilst the common form was only met with in the 
Karakash Valley. 
3. Thalictrum Chelidonii, DC— Zoji-la Pass, 10,000ft. 
4. Thalictrum minusi Linn. — Very abundant in Ladak 
from 9 to 12,000 ft. 
5. Adonis pyrenaica, DC. — Dras Valley (near Zoji-lk 
Pass), 9 to 10,000 ft. 
6. Ranunculus aquatilis, Linn., var. — Dras Valley, 
8 to 9000 ft. 
