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prevented him from carrying out his plans in that region. From 

 Burmah he sailed for Calcutta and from there took the train for 

 Darjeeling, the summer residence of the Bengal Government in 

 the lower Himalayas at an elevation of 7,000 feet. In this most 

 wonderful of all regions the writer stayed a month, making 

 various journeys into the hills. He employed several Nepalese 

 and Tibetans, instructing them to collect seeds of as many forest 

 trees as they could find. As the trees found in this region are of 

 a more temperate climate, they were intended for planting on 

 some of our high mountains, such as Mauna Kea and Mt. Hale- 

 akala. Seeds of not less than 82 species of trees and shrubs were 

 collected in these magnificent hills and were forwarded to Hono- 

 lulu. Arrangement was made to have collected a large amount of 

 seeds of a giant bamboo (Dendrocalamus Hamiltonii) growing 

 in the Teesta valley' and in the lower regions of Sikkim. This 

 bamboo was desired by the U. S. Department of Agriculture for 

 the purpose of experimental planting along the Panama canal. 

 It is one of the bamboos which flowers and fruits abundantly 

 nearly every year. Over a large area this bamboo was in flower 

 during the writer's visit in that district. 



At Calcutta the writer secured the help of the Director of 

 the Botanic Garden at Sipbur in regard to the collecting and 

 forwarding of seeds of valuable trees and shrubs and he has since 

 been informed by Mr. Haughs of the Board of Agriculture that 

 seeds have already been received from that garden. 



From Calcutta the writer journeyed through the whole of 

 Northern India, visiting the districts of Benares, Agra, Delhi, 

 Lahore in the Punjab and from Rawal pindi, the junction to 

 Kashmere to Peshawar in the northwest frontier province. There 

 he secured a pass from the residing political agent which enabled 

 him to cross the mountains intervening between British India 

 and Afghanistan by way of the famous Khyber pass. 



The mountains there are extremely arid and barren ; in the 

 Khyber proper he found trees of an Acacia and other leguminous 

 shrubs which reminded him very much of the Algaroba ; seeds 

 were secured but unfortunately they never arrived in Honolulu. 

 From the extreme northwest corner of India the writer traveled 

 across to Bombay, Central India, Hyderabad in the Deccan, and 

 via Madura to Tuticorin in the extreme south of India, emlbark- 

 ing there for Ceylon. Shortly after arrival at Colombo he pro- 

 ceeded to Kandy, the old Singhalese capital, spending most of his 

 time in the famous botanic gardens at Peradenya, collecting seeds. 



At Colombo the w^ritsr embarked for Egypt, where he visited 

 the sugar producing districts and the largest sugar mill in the 

 world near Assiut. He collected seeds of many plants below 

 Assuan, along the Nile. The most notable introduction into our 



