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only things of note. At the higher levels ecu was at a 
ittle, one speci 
ead point and I collected very 1 ecies 0 
Clematis, two Rhododendrons : the very pisas olonia 
Delavayi, which I had never seen before, I found on a 
place, two plants of Abutilon sinense, which had been sent by me 
from Ichang, and an s iii as yum, which may be new. I also 
came across Lonicera Bournei in flower ; it is of no value as an 
ornamental plant. There Sei very little forest until after Talang, 
when we passed one or two days through almost continuous pine 
forest, varied dre and there by little woods of evergreen oaks. 
Here, rather to my surprise, I learned that the peacock exists in the 
wild state, and it is quite common in the forest south of Szemao. 
These bind forests had not a plant in flower amongst them. 
I noticed, however, two Pn Me ues up of an Abies, new to 
me, but I only found on However, I am not pretending 
now to give any account of ae trip botahiéalis, asit would require 
too much time to get my notes in order at the reete n 
eighteen days I may have collected about 30 plants in flower. 
At one or two places I might have done a lot of MER l 
could have stayed for a e or $55, but 1 was travelling on official 
business, and could not tar 
main interest of the MAPS was the aborigines, or non-Chinese 
races. Chinese here and there dwell on the little tracts of good 
gear of the Shan women made them look like so soy butterflies. 
South of the Red River, in the very barren mountains, the Wo-ni 
are the chief inhabitants, a swarthy people adiddetod to cattle- 
lifting. They speak a language akin to that of the Lolos. There 
are many sub- divisions of the race, and the variety of dress of e 
which is reminiscent of a college-cap magnified ten diameters 
I saw some little Kadoo girls, tiny creatures dressed in Euro opean 
skirts, In the valley of the Pa = d near the suspension 
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silver batons dil turbans, and ti Ue bound i -gear, and 
carried handsome guns of native workmanship. This strange race 
lives in isolated communities in the mountains from here east to 
the Kwangsi Li ap and they indulge in little cultures, like the 
medicinal plant san-ch’i, indigo, ete. Nothing is known about 
Eus ii My five hunters were fine manly chaps, very frank and 
en 
On the way I captured a Lolo literatus, and he stayed with m 
here exe stie s, and I have read thro ough kak or three of their 
SS., the script of which is very peculiar. It is made 
priae hieroglyphic originally, but havik very doubtfully ay 
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