Is right Hank to a depressior 



1 below 



it, SU111II 



lit at about 



elevation. There is a good 







rus Psendo- 



. the shrubby vegetation main 





;ts of a 1 







ossed v 





plainswith 





level t. 







, it would have been almost impossible to keen 



the proper 









istances. Leaving the second 



plain, a 





- 



loot of an enormous black : 







;ht us to the 



x further side we ea 















ning we took the Ki.nglalama 





nd continued up the 









.. 



:se ridges, and surmounted ;>, 









rendered exceedingly swam] 







oi' shallow 



; seemed of very large extent 



, but we 







through the fog. There was 























led a grassy 



east. The descent on the ot 



her side 



led ste< 



>ply through 



There are signs of a more varied vegetation later in 

 present there is verv little scope for botanizing. 

 iculata and P. rctiruhila, res. mbling P. siMlmeasis, 





Ken ruing to Tegyap La, we followed the course of the Ratong for 



about a mile, crossed it hv a hi i.'.; d- up a very 



steep hill covered with rhododendrons: fryptiHjnimnu: crispu was 



The entrance to the undulating top of Jongri 



is marked bv a shallow lake, -aid to be dry in the winter. We camped 

 on a terrace immediately below two stone hui>. Man)- plants were 



nd change afterward- to purple. 1 was informed by the 

 ISepal. The mountain top of Jongri, which is adn irably 



