The dried scales of a tuberous root are imported from these mountains into the Company’s territory, and the druggists there call them _Kshir kangkri_ or _Titipiralu_. Some people of the mountains, whom I employed, brought me the living bulbs, certainly of the same kind, and these had young stems then very thriving, but which soon withered from the heat. They had every appearance of being a species of _Lilium_, and the people who brought them said, that they were the _Titipiralu_, while the _Kshir kangkri_, according to them, is a plant of the cucurbitaceous tribe. Other hill people, however, brought for the Titipiralu a species of _Pancratium_, which I cannot trace in the works of botanists; but it has a great resemblance to the _Pancratium maritimum_. This is certainly not the plant sold by the druggists of Nathpur. The same druggists gave me a medicine which they called _Jainti_ or _Bhutkes_. Some of the hill people said, that it grows among the mosses, on large stones, on the higher mountains, and is evidently the lower part of the stems of one of the _orchides_ of that kind of _epidendra_, which have an erect stem, many of which, I know, grow in Nepal in such situations. Others of the mountaineers alleged that this was not the true Bhutkes, or Bhutkesar, which they say differs from the Jainti; and, in fact, they brought me from the snowy mountains a very different plant, which they called _Bhutkesar_. _Singgiya Bikh_, or _Bish_, is a plant much celebrated among the mountaineers. The plant was brought to me in flower, but was entirely male, nor did I see the fruit, which is said to be a berry. So far as I can judge from these circumstances, I suppose that it is a species of _Smilax_, with ternate leaves. To pass over several of its qualities that are marvellous, the root, which resembles a yam, is said to be a violent poison. The berries also are said to be deleterious, but, when applied externally, are considered as a cure for the swelling of the throat, which resembles the goitre of the Swiss, and is very common among the mountaineers. The _Jhul_ is imported by the druggists of the Company’s territory, and what was brought as such to me, consisted of four kinds of Lichen, intermixed with some straggling Jungermannias. By far the greater part, however, of the Jhul consisted of two kinds of Lichen, the furfuraceus, and one very like the farinaceus. These grow on stones among the mountains. With respect to the breadth of this mountainous region, there is reason to think, from the observations of Colonel Crawford, that, immediately north and east from Kathmandu, the horizontal direct extent may be from thirty to forty British miles; but farther west, the breadth of this region probably exceeds that extent. I have, however, no solid grounds for judging; as days’ journies, given by travellers on routes, in such a country, can give but a very imperfect notion of horizontal distance.