136 EOTAKiCAL oi5seryatio:n-s in the NAOA niLLS. 



Euphorbiacese seem to me fewer than in Sikkim ; except Anti- 

 desma I have collected hardly anything. 



I have collected here Hohnsl^oldia, Cardiopteins, Tacca^ and 

 several other of such characteristic genera. 



I have scon no Garciniad ; nor any Corydalis or Dicentra) nor 

 Crucifer (except one or two weeds) ; nor Capparid. I recollect 

 no other Order well represented in Sikkim that is not fairlij toell 

 rejprescntcd Jiere. 



The list of plants at the top of Jakpho above noted is only of 

 a few selected plants ; I also saw Polygonatum^ two species, 

 Koenif/ia, Anaj)JiaJis, two species, JEj)2lohium, Pyriis, two species, 

 Daphne, Viola, &c.,&c.; ^ZZ I believe identical wuth Tonglo plants. 



I do not intend to ascend Jakpho again as I do not think 1 

 shall get much more there. I shall endeavour to visit a patch 

 of grass at 4000 feet, a few miles hence, also some patch of grass 

 at 7000-8000 feet. Then I march to Muneypoor town (about 

 ninety miles) and thence back to Cachar, about 140 miles. I 

 go to Muneypoor so as to meet the Chief Commissioner, and the 

 Governor- General's Agent there, 



I enclose a few seeds of an Elettaria (?), or at any rate of one 

 of those gingers that flower from the root. I do not imagine 

 they can be of much value to you at Kew ; but they are the only 

 seeds that my hand has fallen on, and I send them to show 

 that I have not forgotten your indent for seeds of any rare or 

 beautiful plants. 



Capt. Plowden, Commandant of the frontier Police, tells nie 

 that only twenty miles hence, at the Kohima level (5000 feet), 

 there is a piece of grass with Khasi pines, two days' march in 

 length ; and apparently the whole Khasi flora there comes in. 



No plant I have collected here surprises me so much as a Si- 



lene which grows in the wet jungle near Kohima, at about 5500 



feet. It is about three feet high, very straggling, hardly any 



• leaves ; in short I cannot recollect anything near it this side of 



Kashmir, but my memory may be defective. 



Believe me to be, 



Yours very truly, 



C. B. Clarke. 



