PLANTS COLLECTED IN SIKKIM. 457 
Plants collected in Sikkim, including the Kalimpong District, April 8th 
to May 9th, 1913. By C. C. Lacarra, F.L.S. 
[Read 16th March, 1916.] 
Tag publication of a list of a scanty collection from a district so well known 
as Darjiling and southern Sikkim is only justified by the fact that Gamble’s 
list deals with the trees, shrubs, and large climbers of the Darjiling district 
alone; С. B. Clarke’s excursion to Tonglo (Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xv. (1876) 
116-159) was made at a different season, so was Gamble's, and he purposely 
does not speak of the flora of the forest region, whilst Smith and Cave's lists 
relate to northern Sikkim. 
I reached Darjiling on the 6th of April, 1918; next morning the whole 
snow range shone gloriously clear, but it was the only eomplete view of it 
that I had during the whole of my visit to Sikkim, though many subsequent 
partial glimpses were far more beautiful, especially from Pemiongchi. 
ITINERARY. 
April 8th. Down to Takvar tea-garden, about 2500’ below Darjiling, through 
rather open middle forest. 
April 9th. Down to Manjhitar bridge on the Great Ranjit river, passing Lebong 
and the Badantam tea-gardens. 
April 116. From Darjiling by the “Calcutta” road to Senchal and Tiger Hill. 
April 13th. To Gumpahar forest beyond Ghoom village. 
April 15th. Ву rail to Kurseong and thence down the old road to Pankabari and 
back. This is the road by which Hooker first came up to Darjiling, and I 
fancy some of my specimens must have been plucked from the same trees 
from which his were taken. 
April 19th. By Jore bungalow and Lopchu to Pashok, where I spent two most 
pleasant evenings with Mr. Lister, the most delightful of companions, intimate 
with all that lives and grows in the forest. 
April 20th. In the forest below Pashok. 
A--" 915%. From Pashok by Tista Bridge to Kalimpong in British Bhotan. 
| ve I joined the party of H.E. the Governor of Bengal, and my movements 
for the next ten days were governed by his. The Kalimpong side of the 
Tista was sufferir from drought, and botanical results were consequently 
poor, except on 
April 23rd, when I scrambled down to the glen near the junction of two streams 
in the valley S.E. of Kalimpong, where there is a very varied flora. 
April 24th. From Kalimpong to Rhikisum (6400); the road very dusty and 
botanically barren till the vicinity of Algarah, where the track to Rhikisum 
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