BOTANICAL TOUR IN CHAMBA AND KANGRA. 
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Orchideae, 
Very few examples of this order were found in flower. Those 
collected were Lip avis sp„ Epipactis latifolia^ Swartz., Her minium 
angustifolimn^ Benth., Habenaria marginata^ Colebr. 
S cit amine ae. 
Roscoea alpina^ Royle , ascends to aoout 10,000 feet. 
Caiitleya lutea^ Royle., was seen rarely about 7,000 feet. 
Irideae. 
The genus iris is represented in Chamba, but no plants were 
found in flower. 
Dioscoreaceae, 
Dioscorea kumaonensis^ Kunth, and D, deltoidea^ Wall., were 
seen. 
Liliaceae, 
Smilax parvifolia^ Wall., is common. 
Several species of Polygonatum were observed, but none were in 
l.ower. 
Lilium polyphyllum^ Don, was collected in woods about 8,000 
feet. 
Pontederiace^, 
Monochoria nastaefolia^ PresL, was common in rice“rields and 
pools in Kangra Valley, 
I C online linaceoe. 
Aneilema nudiflorum^ Brown, and Cyanotis harbata^ Douy 
common up to 6,000 feet. 
Floscopa scandenSy Lour,, was collected in rice-fields in Kangra 
Valley. 
y line ace ae. 
Several species of Juncus collected were not identified, 
Palmeae, 
There are a few cultivated trees of Phoenix sylvestrisy Roxb., 
on flat land near the town of Chamba, 
A roideae. 
Several species of Arisacnia collected but not identified. 
