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and I haven’t come on any of those dark ravines and steep wooded 
cliffs which are the joy of the botanical collector. There is a 
great absence (perhaps the autumn will make a better show) 
80 far of ferns and herbaceous pou What one collects is 
of epiphytic orchids. ommon pla not the 
ommon plants ss Mengtze, in =- the two floras are very 
different.  Szemao will possibly t out very like the Shan 
country where Sir Hen: nry Collett collected and Indian forms not 
hitherto recorded from China are requent enough. The com- 
monest tree after ihe: Uie and the ks (of Sieh there 
are perhaps ten) and Pisis i is y Een Wallichii. There 
are four or five Laurine, a Halesia, a Eugenia, Itea macrophylla, 
Meliosma, two Rhododendrons, a tree Callicar pa, seven or ei 
species of Ficus,a Magnolia; to mention the first which come to my 
mind (bus is represented by five species, one new to me; and 
in China one always expects en meet a new and very distinct 
Rubus aum asap 20 miles in any mountainous part. Rubus 
ellipticus appears in its ordinary form in the forests with large 
distinct variety occurs, with smaller, harder, rounded-off leaflets, 
and this variety occurs in the open couniry, on poor bad soil, in dry 
barren exposed places. It is quite evidently a case of adaptation. 
The variety has rather pow yellow raspberry fruit, produced 
in great profusion, and I think it might be of service to gardeners 
in places where they wanted to grow raspberries on very bad soi 
e an 
in arid climates. In the dry pin d oak woods a Cycas 
occurs, with a stem 2 or 3 feet high, but it has not as yet flowered 
There is also a fern in the same locality, I have not seen 
flower-buds are a delicate red, and the flower just on opening is is 
flushed with pink ; the pink disappears, and the flower, 3 or 4 inches 
in diameter, becomes a pure white, except for a dash of yellow 
