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All the plants above 10,500 feet, had perished, not a single one 

 being found in flower. The descent was so hurried, that it was 

 impossible to note down more plants ; and the same applies to the 

 descent to this from the halting place. Starvation being to be added 

 to discomfort. 



Of Rhododendrons, the species observed, may be characterized as 

 follows : — 



Floribus in racemis umbelliformibus. 



1. R. arboreum, arboreum, foliis oblongo obovatis, subtus argen- 

 teis. 



2. R. ferrugineum, arboreum, foliis obovatis, supra rugosis, subtus 

 ferrugineis. — No. 654. 



3. fruticosum, foliis oblongis, subtus ferruginea lepi- 



dotis.— No. 652. 



4. R. ellipticum, fruticosum, foliis ellipticis. — No. 653. 



5. R ( fruticosum, foliis ellipticis basi cordatis subtus glau- 



cus reticulatis. — No. 659. 



6. R. fruticosum, foliis lanceolate oblongis, sub- obovatis, 



subtus punctatis. — No. 655. 



7. R. undulatum, fruticosum, foliis elongati lanceolatis, undulatis 

 subtus reticulatis. — No. 656. 



Floribus solitariis. 



8. R. microphyllum, fruticosum, lotum ferrugineo lepidotum, foliis 

 lanceolatis parvis. 



February 17 th. — Snow has fallen during the night all around, but 

 not within 1 ,000 feet of us : this will make the snow line here about 

 7,300 feet, the village being 6,335 supra marem. Mildness of climate 

 would appear to be indicated by the abundance of rice cultivation 

 round this place, chiefly, however, about 1,000 feet below. In every 

 direction ranges of 9 to 12,000 feet are visible : villages are very com- 

 mon, especially so in a hollow on the western side of the ravine of 

 the Kooree, in which I counted sixteen or eighteen ; one containing 

 between thirty and forty houses. The space alluded to is one sheet 

 of cultivation, chiefly rice and wheat. Linge itself is an ordinarily 

 sized village, containing about twelve houses. The wooded tracts 

 cease for the most part, about 1,000 feet above this. The face of the 

 country, where uncultivated, being clothed with harsh Andropogoneous 

 grasses, Salix pendula, Thuja pendula, Pyrus malus, Erythrina, 

 Quercus, Juncus effusus, Poranaof Churra, Plantago, Barleria, Poly- 



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