94 VEGETATION. 



on the ground, but others, and they the best flavoui'ed sorts, grow on 

 dead trees, and are slimy, unwholesome-looking things. 



The principal cultivated crops of the Lepchas are their own 

 peculiar varieties of rice, which require no irrigation, and several wet 

 sorts, millets of various kinds, maize, buckwheat, mustard, radishes, 

 turnips, potatoes, climbing beans, yams, caladiums of sorts, pumpkins, 

 cucumbers, plantains, capsicums, ginger, turmeric, cardamoms, cassava, 

 cotton, &c., &c. 



