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The place is very cold; the thermometer varying from 40° to 52° : 

 mean temperature of the day 46°. 



In the barley fields I noticed Fumarise sp., Potentilla and Cynoglos- 

 sum, Erythrina ascends to this ! Pyrus Malus and Spiraea bella occur. 



January 31s2. — Our march this day commenced with an ascent of a 

 ridge lying to the north-east of our halting place, this occupied us some 

 time, and at last we reached a pagoda, visible from Bailfa, and 

 which is nearly 1,000 feet above that place. Thence we descended 

 about a hundred feet, through a well-wooded situation. Emerging 

 thence at about the same elevation, we crossed barren bleak downs, the 

 ravines being alone wooded, and hence the woods had that rounded, 

 defined appearance, so remarkable in some parts of the Khasya hills. 



Thence the descent was continued to Roongdong, the march is an 

 easy one, about seven miles. 



The first new plant that occurred was an Allium on rocks, but it 

 had been dried up by the fires which had bared the surface of the 

 hill of every thing, except the trees and stouter shrubs, capable of 

 resisting its action. 



Toward the pagoda, on the summit of the ridge, Pendulous lichens 

 were abundant, Epiphytes were common, consisting chiefly of Orchi- 

 deae, with the 2 Gay Lussacias, Rhododendron punctata, Hymenopogon 

 parasiticus, Orthodon, Tussilaginoid, Alnus occurred at 7,300 feet. 

 The other vegetation continued. 



At 7,400 feet, a new Quercus appeared, this, which has in its young 

 state, leaves much like those of the Holly, and may therefore be called 

 Q. elicifolia ! Andropogon, Viburnum cserulium, Neckera, Bambusa 

 microphylla, Fragaria, Potentilla, Conyza nivea, Scabiosa Spiraea 

 decomposita, Gillenioides, Smilax ruscordeus, Hyperica of Moflong, 

 Campanula, Swertia, Dipsacus. 



At 7,500 feet, Epilobium, Rosa, Vaccinum cyaneum ! Rhododendron 

 coccineum, Tetranthera. 



At 7,800 feet, Abies pendulifolia, Hemiphragma. 



At the pagoda, and about it, Grimmia was found on rocks, with the 

 usual pendulous Neckerse, Q. elicifolia, Vibura, Hipericum. 



Abies Brunoniana, a large solitary tree, with pendulous branches, 

 Tetranthera, Laurinese, Smilax gaultherifolia, Ilex, on the wooded side 

 of the ridge. Ferns and mosses were abundant, Ilex ! Daphne papyracea. 



Eurya, Panax rhododendrifolia, Rhododendron arborea, minus et 

 majus. The tree of Thumathaya* foliis ad apicem ramorum aggregatis, 



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