staying a few days a! Jonrgi, 1 marched down to Toksun. For 

 mile the p:ith runs eastward along dongri. and then descends 

 for 7,000 feet, enabling one to pass in review the gradation of 

 on from alpine regions to tin- suh-tropical zone. A few gigantic 



elled along the slopes on its left bank by one of the most difficult 

 gorous p.-ilhs in Sikkim. to Yoksun. This place is unique from 

 uliar formation amidst such precipitous surroundings. The 

 >od which once enhanced the beauty of the flat \- now reduced to 

 gathering of pollarded and charred trunks, but the beautiful 

 ke is still surrounded by forest trees. Here, and everywhere in 

 at the same elevation, there are large areas covered with 

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ed for two days to allow my men to r< ;:-uperate in such acoug-. nial 



I'oh/padii/m roxtntt urn, so rare in (he Darj-elini: district, is the 



As Mr. Gamble once told me that Mr. Loving.- had 



Sound it growing on the same rhi/ome with Dri///i/. ;//■<, -inn carnosum, I 



searched can-fully for a continuation of the fact, but I ['ailed to find any 



fcter species. 



Bambiisa Falconer 



