Abstract
THIS catalogue is based on the collections made between the years 1846 and 1849, in the province of Kumaon and the adjoining parts of Garhwal and Tibet, by Lieut. (now Sir Richard) Strachey and Mr. J. E. Winterbottom. The collection was principally made along a line extending through the province of Kumaon across the Himalaya in a south-westerly to north-easterly direction, over a distance of eighty or ninety miles, from the plain of Rohilkhand at about 1000 feet above sea-level, to the Tibetan plateau at an altitude of 14,000 feet to 15,000 feet on the upper course of the River Sutlej. The collection, generally known as the Strachey and Winterbottom Herbarium, included more than 2000 species, and sets of the plants were presented more than fifty years ag to the important herbaria in this country and abroad together with a provisional catalogue. The present catalogue includes, besides the species represented in the original Strachey and Winterbottom herbarium, the results of previous and subsequent botanical exploration of the area from the time of Wallich, Royle, Falconer, Thomson, and others up to a comparatively recent period. Among the more important recent contributions to our knowledge of the Kumaon flora are the large collection made by the late Colonel Anderson, chiefly in the vicinity of Naini-tal, and the results of the extensive botanical explorations made by Mr. Duthie during his term of residence as Government botanist in the North-West Provinces.
Catalogue of the Plants of Kumaon and of the Adjacent Portions of Garhwal and Tibet.
By Lieut.—General Sir Richard Strachey, &c., revised and supplemented by J. F. Duthie. Pp. vii + 271. (London: Lovell Reeve and Co., Ltd., 1906.)
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R., A. Catalogue of the Plants of Kumaon and of the Adjacent Portions of Garhwal and Tibet . Nature 75, 171 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/075171a0
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