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He also made collection trips to the United Provinces, the Punjab, the Central Provinces, Bengal, South Canara and Travancore.

Elwes with Eremurus elwesii at Colesbourne Along with T. Edwards, Elwes wrote a monograph on the Oriental Hesperiidae.

He also made a trip to the Altai region in 1898.

His posthumously published Memoirs ( 1930 ) includes a chapter describing his visit to Nepal in 1914, at a time when Europeans were seldom admitted.

He also mentions an unnamed companion, now known to be the English naturalist Aubyn Trevor-Battye, who took some of the photographs used to illustrate this chapter.

Elwes was famous for his breeding of Nerine and Eremurus.

Horticulturalist and garden writer Edward Augustus Bowles noted that he was specially interested in Arisaema, Crinum, Crocus, Fritillaria and Iris, as well as Kniphofia, Paeonia and Yucca.

It is from Bowles ' memoir in Elwes ' posthumous biography that we get most information about the Colesbourne garden, but even this is sadly scanty.