134 MB. C. B. CLAHKE's BOTANICAIi OBSEUVATIOl^S 



The levels 5000-7000 feet on Jakpho (and elsewhere here) are 

 mostly forests of shrubby Strolilantlies six to twelve feet high, 

 just as in Sikkim. The three or four species now in flower are 



Sikkim species. 



• There is a tree on Tonglo, at about 8000-9000 feet alt., which 

 has been mueli noticed by the Europeans here, as they believe it 

 to be the English holly. I thought they were wrong, thougli 

 the leaf is much like Hex Aqttifolium, But I was not able to get 

 either flower or fruit. The trees I saw were thirty to forty feet 

 high, erect, with single cj^lindric stems about eight inches diam. 

 The bark is clean, much like holly, and I now think the European 

 residents may be right. 



There are several laurels on Jakpho, two (at least) of which 

 are Litcvas] but I only saw the fruits of one laurel, which I did 

 not collect as I could not get the leaves |)elonging. 



The above account of my Jakpho ascent will explain to you tliat 

 though the place is very interesting, it has hardly supplied me with 

 one species that I know can be new. It seems to me that I may 

 get here one or two new species in each large Order, but that I 

 am not likely to get a new genus. 



Up to 5000 feet the Convolvulacese are very prominent. The 

 snow-creeper {Porana) is abundant about Kohima, and there is 

 another small one here. At 1000 feet alt. is a splendid species 

 with flowers fully as large as the Sikkim mauve P(9ra;2^, but white, 

 downy Avithout. Of these large flowers there are twenty to thirty 

 in each spike, and the spikes very numerous. It is a beautiful 

 plant; but I have an idea that Kurz got it on the Karen Hills. 

 Prom 2000 to 4000 feet alt. white-flowered Ipomsoas abound, none 

 I think new. 



The gingers have been numerous here, but are now off flower. 

 There remains one (a very fine one) like Hcdyclmim coronarinm^ 

 but with rich orange flowers (I think a new species). Also I got 

 down in the Nambre forest, at 500 feet alt., a large JRoscoea with 

 purple flowers (many) in subquodrangular spikes. This also is 

 a new species so far as I can recollect. 



The orchids here are numerous (the European residents say, 

 very numerous), but not so many perhaps as in Khasia. I have 

 collected several Sikkim species. Of peculiarly Khasi species 

 Vanda ccerulea is plentiful ; also the Ccelogyne witli brown 

 fringed lip. There are two FMhahenarias still in flower. 



In Bubiaceae, as in so many other Orders, if you take the Flora of 



