$6 REPORT ON A BOTANICAL TOUR IN KASHMIR, 1893. 
bled to dust. This condition of the vegetation is not unusual at high 
elevations, where early and sudden frosts take place in a still air. 
I returned to Chilam the next morning, and on the following day 
(ijtb) crossed the Dorikun pass in a storm of wind and sleet, and 
reaciied Ivliniiii^ rg the same evening. I halted here for a day to dry 
the tent^,. ind this gave me an opportunity of exploring some forest 
ground on the further side of the stream. The most interesting 
rl-scovery here was that of Pyrola sectmda, a species which hadznot 
been recorded for India previous to my finding it in the Astor valley 
in 1 892. The undei growth in this forest is composed chiefly of a 
variety of Rubus niveits, wxth red fruit tasting exactly like that of 
the raspberry, and of black-currant ’bushes with their branches bent 
down with the weight of the fruit. Another kind of bramble {R, 
saxatilis)^ with scarlet fruit, is also abundant here. The natives 
call it pops,'' A large number of interesting mosses were collecte 
here. 
From Minimarg I marched to Gura’s, and, after halting there for 
a few days, returned to Srinagar by the Pdjdiangan pass, and thence 
to India via Baramula and Murree. 
J. F. DUTHIE, 
Directory Botanicdl Departmenty 
Northern India. 
Saharanpur, 
The 6 th August i 8 g 4 * 
Notes on some of the Econofnic Plctnis met with in Kashmir^ and 
in the districts of Baitistcln and Gilgit, 
As my tours in Kashmir during the last two years were made 
chiefly through mountainous and uncultivated portions of that'coun- 
try, I had not many opportunities for studying the more important 
agricultural crops. These, however, will be fully described by Mr, 
Lawrence in his forthcoming settlement report. 
The following information is taken mainly from notes made 
during these tours. I have been careful, as far as possible, to avoid 
the repetition of facts already recorded in the Dictionary of Economic 
Products. 
Abies Wehbiana, Lindl., var, Pindrow — (Silver fir). — Une of the 
principal constituents of the high elevation forests, called kdtul in 
the NaltUr valley, north of Gilgit. 
