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INDEX. 



Polygonum cymosum, ii. 31. 

 Polypodium proliferum, i. 50. 

 Pomrang, ii. 313. 

 Pony, Tibetan, i. 118; ii. 75; (note), 



ii. 131. 

 Poppy, cultivation of, i. 31 ; ii. 352. 

 Porcupine, i. 205. 

 Potamogeton natans, i. 306. 

 Potatos, culture of in East Nepal, i. 



259 ; Khasia, ii. 277 ; Sikkim, i. 158. 

 Pothos, ii. 18. 



Praong (bamboo), i. 158, 313. 

 Primula petiolaris, i. 306 ; Sikkimensis, 



ii. 77. 

 Prinsepia (note), ii. 102, 291. 

 Procapra picticaudata, ii. 157. 

 Prunella, ii. 132 ; vulgaris, ii. 66. 

 Prunus, used for fodder, i. 359. 

 Pteris aquilina, ii. 19 ; (note), ii. 53. 

 Pullop-bi (Polygonum), ii. 31. 

 Pulse accelerated at great elevations, ii. 



131, 142. 

 Pundim mountain, i. 345 ; cliff of, i. 346. 

 Pundua, ii. 264. 

 Punkabaree, i. 102, 374, 403. 

 Purnea, i. 97. 

 Pyrola, ii. 43. 



Q 



Quartz-beds, folded, i. 406 ; blocks in 



Falkland Islands (note), ii. 179. 

 (luoercus semecarpifolia, i. 187. 

 Quoits, i. 338. 



R 



Raban, Lieut., ii. 333; garden of at 

 Churra, ii. 84. 



Radiation, powerful in valleys, i. 209. 



Rageu (deer), ii. 98. 



Rain-fall at Churra, ii. 282 ; at Noacolly, 

 ii. 340; diminution of at Rotas, i. 43; 

 in Sikkim (Appendix), 412 ; Silchar, 

 ii. 334. 



Rajah, Sikkim, audience of, i. 302 ; po- 

 verty of, i. 303; (note), ii. 216; pre- 

 sents from, ii. 64 ; punishment of, ii. 

 246 ; residence of, ii. 191, 217. 



Raj -ghat, i. 44. 



Rajmahal hills, i. 95. 



Raklang pass, i. 292. 



Ramchoo lake (of Turner), ii. 143, 167. 



Rampore Bauleah, ii. 251. 



Ranee of Sikkim, presents from, ii. 227. 



Rangamally, i. 393. 



Ranunculus aquatilis ,ii. 156; hyperboreus 

 (note), ii. 112; sceleratus,\. 45, 80. 



Ratong river, i. 358. 



Rat, tail-less, ii. 156. 



Red snow, absence of in Himalaya, ii. 

 117. 



Release from confinement, ii. 237. 



Reptiles of Khasia, ii. 305 ; of Sikkim, 

 ii. 25. 



Rhododendrons, i. 166, 167; alpine, 

 i. 220 ; ii. 58 ; anthopogon, i. 220, 349; 

 arboreum, i. 126, 200, 274, 275, 276 ; 

 ii. 25; argenteum, i. 126, 358; ii. 6; 

 Aucklandii, ii. 25; barbatum, i. 166, 

 274 ; campy locarpum, i. 261 ; Dalhou- 

 sice, i. 126, 162 ; ii. 25 ; distribution 

 of at Chola (note), ii. 197 ; Edge- 

 worthii, ii. 25 ; Falconeri, i. 272, 274, 

 307 ; flowering of at different ele- 

 vations, ii. 181 ; formosum, ii. 301 ; 

 Hodgsoni, i. 250, 274 ; leaves curled 

 by cold, ii. 199 ; nivale, ii. 89, 155 ; of 

 Churra, ii. 282 ; poisoning of goats by, 

 ii. 150 ; setosum, i. 220, 349 ; superb at 

 Choongtam, ii. 186. 



Rhubarb, gigantic, ii. 58 ; used as to- 

 bacco, ii. 152. 



Rice-paper plant (note), i. 359. 



Rice, Sikkim, i. 155; upper limit of 

 cultivation, ii. 105. 



Ringpo, ii. 196. 



Ripple-mark on sandstone, i. 43, 63. 



Rivers, diurnal rise and fall of, ii. 69 ; 

 of West Bengal, i. 33 ; temperature 

 of, ii. 60 ; velocity of, ii. 99. 



Rocks, absence of scratched in Sikkim, 

 ii. 120 ; falling, ii. 57 ; moutonneed, 

 ii. 136 ; moved by frosts, &c, ii. 179; 

 retention of heat by, i. 222 ; strike 

 of in Tibet, ii. 177. 



Rong (name of Lepchas), i. 127. 



Rosa involucrata, ii. 250; macropliylla, 

 ii. 43 ; sericea, i. 168. 



Rose, Gangetic, (Rosa involucrata), ii. 

 255; gardens, i. 78; large-flowered, 

 ii. 43. 



Rotas-ghur, i. 40 ; palace, i. 42. 



Rottlera tinctoria, i. 315. 



Rummai, i. 394. 



Ryott valley, ii. 190. 



S 



Saddle, Tibetan, i. 296. 



Sakkya, invocation of, i. 229 ; Sing, i. 



321 ; Thoba, i. 331. 

 Sakkyazong, i. 186, ii. 66. 

 Sal, i. 21. 

 Salix tetrasperma, i. 400; Bdbylonica, 



ii. 32. 

 Salmonidm, distribution of in Asia, 



(note) ii. 183. 



