■o large enough to contain our tents, and water 

 md of the first day we found such a place at 

 stanc for shepherds. Its elevation by B. P. 

 4 feet. The camping ground was covered with 

 brmidahle Cnicus eriophoi 



l{.ri,ntabarinum,ll. Falconeri, R. barbatum, 

 and P. Ilndgsoui, Acer cm-datum, lhtuta i/tili.s, Piiris ovnlifola, 

 Juniperus Pseiuio-Sabina. Abies trehbiana, Pnnins rufa, A rundinaria 

 spat It (floret, Ac. These trees grow so densely that very few herbaceous 

 plants rxi.-t beneath them. Sa.rifraga liguletta, a few species ot 

 Pol g gun a at, ferns of two species, and potentials being most in evidence. 

 A variety of heauti I ul mosses grow on the rocks. On open knolls the 

 soil is carpeted with Gnnltluria lunitmi'laria and the heather-like 

 < 'assinp, fastigietta. 



The following day's march was from Ewanangi to Megu. Two 

 gentians beconn common about 1L',000 i'evt. ( hie, G< ,»tiana stglopfwra, 

 with large, terminal, greenish, lily-like flowers ; the other' Sieertia 

 HooJitri, conspicuous by its brown leaves and inflorescence, growing 

 together in whorls on a stem often 6 feet high. A white and pink 

 primula is common, Rhododendron Anthopogon is abundant. Its 

 fragrant lc m - an largely collected and burned as incense in Iiu 1 Ihist 

 tempi, s. Small trees are represented by the species of rhododendron 



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variety of Jumpcriis n exrva, which forms excessively close thickets. 



V'" ''"//" u<\ Pgi *rha,)inn;de*r;r»\\ open situations. Clematis 



8, climbs over bushes, and at once 



"rests attention. A su< . and descents (where 



. 

 '" ll)( '! — '>- < <( In a eomj uaiiveh level path running 

 "'' r !,;l> r ay the large 



ai.d^ grassy liat of Megu. whose elevation by B. P. thermometer was 

 l ;'~^~ *'.'' . u " i . !: ':- ht -'''''■'I -iirfaee was' interspersed with many 

 ' s, a refreshing sight 



the rocks above the camping ground. I always 



yond the snows. The 



; mate, was represented by numerous 



- amongst the rhododendrons. A great extent 



id the camping ground is swampy, and covered with 



latum. The stepping stones across the wettest 



I li( ~ «' tinned , : - <« i lat< 1 _i , „,. „ , eh ai i 



-truck. Various sperie S „f Seduiii of the section Rliediu/a and the 



recommon in the clefts of stones, 



_:i :-s present a mo>l forbidding appearance. 



Since we lefl 1'halut 



: ■ ■■ - ■ ■ ■ ; _■:..,;.. 



Primula pusilla, P. glabra and Delphinium alpinam, 

 character to the place by their plentiful presence. In 



