112 OUTER HIMALAYA. Chap. IV. 



cajoling the gnome of a housekeeper, I procured the usual 

 roast fowl and potatos, with the accustomed sauce of a 

 strong smoky and singed flavour.* 



Pacheem stands at an elevation of nearly 7300 feet, and 

 as I walked out on the following morning I met with 

 English looking plants in abundance, but was too early in 

 the season to get aught but the foliage of most. Chryso- 

 spleniwn, violet, Lobelia, a small geranium, strawberry, 

 rive or six kinds of bramble, Arum, Paris, Convallaria, 

 Stellar ia, Riibia, Vaccinium, and various GnajJ Italia. Of 

 small bushes, cornels, honeysuckles, and the ivy tribe 

 predominated, with Sym^locos and Skimmia, Eurya, bushy 

 brambles, having simple or compound green or beautifully 

 silky foliage; Hypericum, Berberry, Hydrangea, Wormwood, 

 Adamia cyanea, Viburnum, Elder, dwarf bamboo, &c. 



The climbing plants were still Panax or Aralia, Kadsura, 

 Saurauja, Hydrangea, Vines, Smilax, Amjjelopsis, Polggona, 

 and, most beautiful of all, Stauntonia, with pendulous 

 racemes of lilac blossoms. Epiphytes were rarer, still I 

 found white and purple Cadogynes, and other Orchids, and 

 a most noble white Rhododendron, whose truly enormous 

 and delicious lemon -scented blossoms strewed the ground. 

 The trees were one half oaks, one quarter Magnolias, 

 and nearly another quarter laurels, amongst which grew 

 Himalayan kinds of birch, aider, maple, holly, bird-cherry, 

 common cherry, and apple. The absence of Leguminosa 

 was most remarkable, and the most prominent botanical 

 feature in the vegetation of this region : it is too high 

 for the tropical tribes of the warmer elevations, too low 

 for the Alpines, and probably too moist for those of tempe- 

 rate regions ; cool, equable, humid climates being generally 



* Since writing the above a comfortable house has been erected at Senadah, the 

 name now given to what was called Pacheem Bungalow. 



