Below you will find scanned in images of pressed specimens of plants gathered by amateurs in the 1880s and 1890s from Kashmir to the source of the Ganges
A Himalayan Edelweiss (LEONTOPODIUM SP.) from near the source of the Ganges, 1892  'Silver Fern' (CHEILANTHES FARINOSA Syn. C.BICOLOR) collected in Kashmir in 1898 - a low level Silver Fern with the lower surfaces of the fronds a beautiful white is found from Hazara to Burma (now Myanamar) @ 700-1200m
Under-side of the leaf of a 'Silver Fern' photographed near Dalhosiae, Himachal Pradesh in 2012
GENTIANA TIANSHANICA - Kashmir 1898
A climbing fern -? LYGODIUM SP. from Ganges Valley in 1892
GENTIANA STIPITATA - pale blue flowers with dark stripes; near source of Ganges, 1892
Fern from Martund Temple, near Gangabal, Kashmir, 1898
Anemones found at Shimla in 1897 - are these just cultivars?
'Maiden-hair fern' (ADIANTUM SP.) Ganges Valley, 1898
SWERTIA SP. (a member of Gentian family), Tragbal, Kashmir, 1898
'Kashmir Bell-flower' (CAMPANULA ?CASHMIRIANA) Kashmir 1898
'Larkspur' (DELPHINIUM SP.) - Kashmir, 1898
'KASHMIR ROCK-JASMINE' (ANDROSACE ROTUNDIFOLIA) - Kashmir, 1898
CODONOPSIS SP. pale blue stripped on pass between Lidder and Sind Vallet, Kashmir, 1899 - EITHER C.OVATA or C.OBTUSA; need to check the differences
A white rose (ROSA SP.) on pass between Lidder and Sind Valley, Kashmir, 1899
CYANANTHUS SP. - Ganges Valley, 1892 |
