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Smrococca pntnifvrmis, are in great quantity. The handsome fern 

 nuns large ana- in the manner of bracken 

 at lower elevations. Two species of Lcacostegia, L. Hookeri and L. 

 membranulosa, with sweetly hay scented foliage, and a large stipitate 

 form of Pleopeltis simplex, grow in a wood at about 8,000 feet. 

 Goniophlebium ebenipes was in dense clusters on the tops of many of 

 the numerous rocks. 



This locality is eminei Its variety of coniferous 



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J Singalelah and Chola Ranges, s- its supremacy 



branched shrub. Large quanti 

 vely from Abies uebbiima are annually ( x ported 

 i important industry of the inhabitants 

 er with no other appliances than the 



and Tsuga brunoniana are found between 8,000 and 

 first is a tall conical tree with thick trunk and dark 

 ranches, the latter h is spren ling branches, dro .ping 



Griffith's joi 



of W feet. ' '. 

 cylindrical < 



and turnips which wen- the only vegetable's I could obtain worth 

 eating; their scanty yield of potato - consisted of wretchedly small 



The Tankra Mountain was within easy distance of Laehung, and as 



to see, I determined to visit it at once. We evoked the Laehung 

 liver, threaded our way through the narrow dirty lanes of the village, 



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■ n-t held -->,_■•; * .e e. in posed of the 



Liliinn r,>sctn»,lxvi.'\v profu>e!\ on i auks, a- o< iated with Hoscoea alpina 

 and Drnscrti peltatu. At !),."( H) feet we passed through a fine grove 

 of small trees of rhod •-. Lindcra twcsiaiui, 



Bfhilu '"///,, and th. i ;t„sc. In a 



