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viz. into : — 1, the'region of cultiyatiorij alt. 2000-5000 feet ; 2, the 

 low level jungle below 20U0 feet ; 3, the upper level jungle, 5000- 

 8500 feet ; and 4, the small peak of Jakpho, 8500-9900 feet, where 

 a subalpine flora with Rhododendrons just comes in. The rocks 

 here are much as in Sikkim but more disintegrated ; the upper 

 levels (above 5000 feet) may be about as steep as the slopes in 

 Sikkim at 5000-10,000 feet ; but the cultivated region, 2000-5000 

 feet, are much more open, less steep, valleys, with evidently 

 richer soil than Sikkim. Major Beresford, who accompanied me 

 to Jakpho, again aurd again exclaimed, " I never saw such culti- 

 vation in all my life." The land is all terraced and irrigated, 

 and covered with a heavy crop of a strong growing rice; it looks 

 like the margin of the plain of North Italy near the lakes. 

 Thare is also the common hill-rice as in Sikkim. The Naga 

 Hills are as Sikkim, but with a vastly ameliorated climate, warmer, 

 much less rain. The Nagas now are much what the Khasia 

 were when you were among them ; but the population here is 

 very large instead of as in Khasia and Sikkim. The Nagas eat 

 dog extensively (dogs are largely imported for the table from 

 Muneypoor), in this point appoaching the Chinese. 



It is perhaps rash for me to make so strong a statement about 

 the vegetation of Kohima (and the levels above it) after being 

 here but ten days ; I will therefore offer a little detailed supi)ort 

 of it before going further. I take the Commelinacese, the Indian 

 species of which I know pretty well sjpecificallif. I have seen 

 here every Sikkim species (except the Pollia with six perfect 

 stamens), while not one of the species peculiar to Khasia have I 

 yet collected here. I have only one new species, collected 1200 

 feet only above sea, an Aneilema of no interest except to a mono- 

 grapher. 



Take Buhiis : the Sikkim species abound, the two Darjeeling 

 silver-leaved Eubi (one with 3-partite, one with 5-partite leaves) 

 are here (not in Khasia at all) ; and besides these there is another 

 simple-leaved silver-leaved species of the same section of Buhus, 

 very handsome (I believe new). 



Take Senecio: we have here S. WaUicJiii and its closely allied 

 species (I forget specific name), unknown in Khasia; and we 

 have here I believe nearly every Sikkim Couiposite that grows 

 below 9000 feet. We have here, however, also oneKhasi speciesi 

 viz. the plant 1 called Senecio Bahani, which you have reduced in 

 the * Flora of British India ' under another well known-species (to 

 which it is very closely allied). I have also got two new Senecios, 



