384 ME. c. b. claeke's botanic notes 



Plate XIV. 



Fig. 1. Submerged leaf ; Fig. 2. Four aerial leaves ; both half nat. size : from 

 one stem of B. Lingua, likewise obtained from a marsh-ditch in 

 Pevensey Levels, near to the Waterworks, Eastbourne, May 25, 1878. 



Botanic Notes from Darjeeling'to Tonglo and Sundukphoo. 

 By C. B. Clabkb, F.B.S., F.L S. 



[Read 15th January, 1885.] 



In the ' Journal of the Linnean Society,' vol. xv. p. 116, are 

 printed some botanic notes of mine made on an excursion from 

 Darjeeling to Tonglo in September 1876. I made a hasty excur- 

 sion from Darjeeling on 2nd June, 1884, to Tonglo, and on to 

 Sundukphoo, 15 miles further along the same ridge. There are 

 now Government-furnished bungalows on this ridge between 

 Sikkim and Nepaul, viz. : — Jore Pokri, from Darjeeling 13 miles, 

 alt. 7500 feet ; Tonglo, from Jore Pokri 10 miles, alt. 10,000 

 feet ; Sundukphoo, from Tonglo 15 miles, alt. 12,000 feet ; Phal- 

 loot, from Sundukphoo 13 miles, alt. 11,800 feet. There is a 

 Government pony-path the whole way, and it is now easy to ride 

 out to Tonglo in six hours. When Sir J. D. Hooker made his 

 memorable excursion from Darjeeling to Tonglo in May 1848 

 (see Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. [1850] p. 17), there was no road round 

 this ridge ; and he followed the native path directly across the 

 valley of the upper Eungait, having to work hard to get to Tonglo 

 in three days. The new Government pony-path in many places 

 winds along the side of the mountain, takes you into the gorges 

 and over their torrents, and facilitates greatly the operations of 

 the botanic collector. I have been along this ridge from Tonglo 

 to Phalloot (and onwards north) on several occasions ; but the 

 old path was very much on the ridge, and so very rough and 

 steep that one had to look continuously at one's feet. The 

 present frontier-path and bungalows, designed by J. Ware Edgar, 

 Dep.-Commissioner of Darjeeling in 1876, have thus aided the 

 botanist, as well as rendered it easy for the denizens of Darjee- 

 ling to see the celebrated view from Sundukphoo. From the 

 verandah of the bungalow, which is close to the summit of Sun- 

 dukphoo, 12,000 feet alt., you look over the valleys of the Tanibur 

 aud Arun upon the great Nepaul wall of snow, in the centre of 



