CEA LEK. 2lf 
MOUNTAIN AND MONASTERY; A SECOND JOURNEY 
TO THE YANG-TZE 
From August 19 to September 16 we remained at | 
A-tun-tsi, except for three days in camp on the eastern 
range. 
Day after day we went over the old climbs, finding 
many of the spring flowers in seed; on the other hand 
the summer flora at high altitudes was now at its best, 
great numbers of gentians being in bloom on the grass- 
land while the limestone rocks were gay with bunches of 
yellow saxifrage. Lower down was a wealth of Labiatae, 
mostly herbs of rank growth, the majority of the common 
British genera being represented and, like the gentians, 
saxifrages, and other genera rich in species, flowering 
simultaneously. There were also many species of Cory- 
dalzs, both in the alpine region and at intermediate alti- 
tudes, some of them growing as shade plants, some on the 
open screes at 16,000 feet, while one, with dense spikes of 
brilliant yellow flowers, was an aquatic. 
On the dry rocky slopes exposed to both sun and wind, 
just below A-tun-tsi, I found a purple-flowered J/orzna 
(Dipsaceae), white-flowered specimens also being frequent, 
and growing on a limestone cliff at 13,000 feet was a small 
Pinguicuéa, but unfortunately the flowers were over. I also 
came across the pretty twining Codonopsts convolvulacea 
with large mauve flowers, and at 15,000 feet was an erect 
species of this same genus with pendent bell-shaped corollas 
of a dirty flesh colour prettily veined with crimson inside, 
but having a most abominable odour. The genus Codoxopszs 
was represented by yet a third example, which occurred at 
