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JOURNEY TOWARDS BOOTAN, 



hair like those of Assam, indeed the dress generally of both sexes 

 assimilates to that of Assamese, although their language seems to be 

 Bengallee. In the wood surrounding this place curious features of 

 vegetation occur, and beautiful lanes and pathways. One may see 

 a beech now naked of leaves, standing out in graceful relief close to 

 the elegant foliage of a bamboo. Bamboos surround all the houses 

 — sugarcane, kuchoos, mustard, hemp, Musa, Ricinus were ob- 

 served. 



The plants are beech, which is common and of large size. Pyrus of 

 Moleem, Pinus rare, Marlea begonifolia ! Betula corylifolia common. 

 Verbena chamsedrys, Rubi 3 or 4, Tetrantherse ? Rubia cordifolia, 

 Morus, Cerasus, Panax 3 species, Gleichenise 2, Eurya, Juncus, Ra- 

 nunculus, Viola, Verbesina of Moflong, Sida, Clematis pubescens, 

 Caricinese, Myrica, Gordonia, Polygonum 3, among them Rheoides 

 Engeldhaardtii common, Viburna 2, Wendlandia, Osbeckia capitata 

 and nepalensis. The grasses chiefly Andropogons ; Musssenda, Buck- 

 landia, Saurauja, Hirsea, Dipsacus rare, Camellia oleifolia, andC. axil- 

 laris, Begonia laciniata, Ficus, Vitis, Sonerila, Plectranthus azureus, 

 Randia, Mephitidia, Psychotria, Galium, Clerodendrum infortunatum, 

 Pyrus or crab, Fragaria, Potentilla, Urena lobata. The diversified na- 

 ture of the vegetation, both tropical and temperate, is at once evident. 



The altitude is 3,553 feet — temperature of the air 62° ; large 

 thermometer boiling point 205 \° : wooden ditto 206J° : centigrade 

 ditto 96°: small ditto 199J°. 



The higher ground about the place is about 4,000 feet : Joowye 

 being situated in a hollow. Viola and Peristrophe occur. 



November lltk. — The march to Nurtung occupies about 6 hours. 

 The country is level, or merely undulated, with no considerable descent, 

 the steepest being that to the river on which Nurtung is situated. The 

 vegetation continues the same, the trees except in the ravines almost 

 exclusively pines, those on the ravines consisting of oaks, Rhodo- 

 dendra, Betula corylifolia, Betula moroides, Solidago, Verbena, Pri- 

 mulaceae, Othonna, occur; Anthistirise, both those of Nunklow are 

 common, Rottboellia Manisuris in low vallies : here and there Phoenix 

 pumila is common. The country just before Nurtung is uninteresting, 

 scarcely any thing but grass being visible in some directions. Indeed 

 it falls off on leaving Joowye. 



Rhinanthus, Corolla infundibulif. subbilabiat. lobis 2, superioribus 

 minoribus, stam. ascendent, stigmati inclusi decurvo. 



November \2th. — Nurtung is a large place for these hills, perhaps 



