EXPLANATION 
PLANTS FIGURED ON THE TITLE-PAGE. 
The following Sikkim-Himalayan plants have been reduced and grouped by Mr. Fitch, chiefly from 
Mr. Catheart’s drawings. 
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In the centre of the title-page, Cathcartia villosa. 
Tn the centre of the group of flowers, two flowers of Magnolia Oampbellii. 
To the left :— 
. A stem of the mountain Bamboo, on the left-hand side of the title-page. 
. Codonopsis inflata, climbing round the middle part of the Bamboo stem. 
. Dactylicapnos thalictrifolia (in fruit) round the lower part of the Bamboo stem. 
. Meconopsis Nepalensis (yellow panicle of flowers), next to the Bamboo leaves. 
. Arisema, species undescribed ; purple-hooded Arum, with two trifoliolate leaves ; beneath the Meconopsis. 
ftubus rosefolius, red fruit, below the left-hand Arisema leaf. 
ftubus calycimus, red fruit, below 7, and across the bottom of the Bamboo stem. 
Rhododendron Dalhousie (white), to the left of the Magnoha Campbellu (2). 
. Rhododendron Hodgsoni, to the right of 9. 
. Rhododendron fulgens, to the left of 9, and immediately above the Rubus (8). 
. Rhododendron eruginosum, a few flowers above the head of 2. fulgens. 
Vaccum salignum, below &. Dalhousie. 
. Calanthe, species ?, leaf and pale purple flower, to the right of 14: 
. Celogyne cristata, to the right of 15. 
. Ceelogyne ocellata, a single flower, above 16, and a little to the right of it. 
. Cologyne Hookeriana, two purplish flowers and leaves, below the Magnolia petals. 
To the right of the Magnolia :— 
. A stem of a mountain Rattan cane, Calamus, on the right-hand side of the title-page. 
. Purple-flowered Zpomea (species unknown), elevation 5-6000 feet, and 
21. 
. Meconopsis simplicifolia (blue), between the leaves and flowers of the Hodgsonia. 
. Rhododendron Aucklandn, large white-flowered, to the right of the Magnolia. 
. Rhododendron Thomsont, var. candelabrum, between the Magnolia and R. Auckland (beneath the 
Hodgsonia heteroclita, both climbing round the Palm stem. 
word “ villosa’). 
. Rhododendron Thomson (scarlet), between R. Aucklandii and the Hodgsonia leaf. 
. Rubus flavus, “yellow Raspberry,” below Rhododendron Thomsont. 
. Dactylicapnos thalictrifolia, im flower and fruit (see also 4), at the extreme right hand, lower corner. 
. Aischynanthus Peel, to right of Rhododendron Aucklandi. | 
. Calanthe veratrifolia (pale lilac), below. Rhododendron Aucklandii, 
. Celogyne precoe (purple), below 27. 
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