LIST OF PLANTS. 
dry fuel for days together in crossing the high table land. 
Yaks readily eat it_, but horses and sheep will not do so 
until hard pressed ; the flesh of sheep fed on it is almost 
uneatable. 
* 315. Kalimocnemis, sp. — Karakash and Yarkand 
plains, 8 to 14,000 ft. 
* 316. Chenopodium Vulvaria, Linn. — Sanju. 
* 317. Cbenopodlum murale, Linn. — Sanju to 
Yarkand. 
* 318. Chenopodium xnaritima, Moq. — Yarkand City. 
319. Echinopsilon mollis, Bunge. — Indus Valley, 
Ladak, and between Sanju and Yarkand. 
* 320. Atriplex rosea? Linn., H. f. and T. dist. — Le 
and Yarkand. 
321. Kalogiton fflomeratum, C. A. Mey. — Yarkand, 
at 5 to 15,000 ft. 
322. Salsola Kali? L. — Desert plains between Sanju 
and Yarkand. 
URTICACEiE. 
* 323. Ficus, sp. — In Yarkand several excellent 
varieties of fig are cultivated. The fruit is very large, and 
often pure white, as if it had been blanched. 
* 324. Morus. — Mulberries are cultivated in Yarkand 
for feeding silkworms. The trees are planted along 
roadsides and round fields. They are also occasionally seen 
in Ladak. 
325. Urtica hyperborea, Jacq. — Below Pangong Lake, 
13,000 ft. 
CANNABINACEiE. 
* 326. Cannabis indica, Lam. — Indian hemp, or 
rather the extract, is one of the principal exports from Yar- 
kand. The plant grows to 8 or 10 feet in height. I was 
unable to see the process by which the extract is prepared. 
I was told that the fibre is seldom extracted^ the straw 
being used only as fuel. 
