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narta, 10 to 15 feet high, owing their origin in a large measure 
to fire, and where little grows except the bamboo, Above the 
mixed lichen-clad forest are the woods of Abies webbiana, and 
the open grassy pastures 
The season of my visite is the end of the rains. At that 
time there are great contrasts within my limits: high up ha 
is tumbled and partly dead. But low down there are plants only 
just at the height of their flowering : and just at my lowest limit, 
which the tree-ferns reach, the tall Gynura angulosa bears its 
first showy orange flowers among the under-shrubs. In the 
forest above this limit, under oaks and other trees, Impatiens 
asymmetrica makes great beds, covered with ellow flowers ; 
mingling with it stands claret Strobilanthes shines saa here 
and there is an inconspicuous Swertia Ohirata or a plant of Cory- 
dalis cherophylla covered with sb blossoms. A claret-coloured 
ee ti stands in the shade; and at the back of the beds of 
balsa and so a yard or two from the edge of the path, the big 
sitet blue bells of Crawfurdia speciosa hang on the bushes. 
At the end of September, so far is the belt near my lowest 
limit from winter, that all these plants are at the height of their 
flowering : but where, at about 9, 500 feet, the moss ceases to clothe 
the trees and lichen replaces it, flowers become less abundant. 
is common in places, and so are Heracleum sublineare, Polygonum 
campanulatum and Anemone obtusiloba. Here and there sheets of 
Eriyeron multicaulis, or of Anchusa sikkimensis, or of Dracocephalum 
PenpuLous FLowERs. 
Pendulous flower, with little foothold, tube 15 mm. oc (Class H). 
Dicentra scandens, Wulp. (below). 
