88 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Nain-dzai on the Blackwater below Siku, where it had been 
allowed to form good 4-6 feet bushes of stiff boughs beset with 
fine Anthylloid foliage, and studded with myrtle-like black 
fruits in November, to replace the long copious sprays of foamy, 
cream-white blossom which in May had made the whole shrub 
wear the look of a well-flowered rigid Hawthorn. 
Pachysandra sp. (? Pachysandra procumbens) (F 441) is an ugly thing 
with long fat pods, found flopping over one or two cool boulder- 
tops in the deep limestone gorge of Mo-Ping, with prostrate 
shoots of evergreen foliage, 6-8 inches in length. 
Paeonia Moutan (F 8) has not been collected, but it is interesting 
to record this most glorious of all flowering shrubs in its most 
gorgeous snow-white form, as a wild plant from the cool copses 
above Foo-er-Gai (between Tsin Chow and Kiai Chow, April 19), 
again on the torrid hill opposite Kiai Chow here and there 
amid the coarse herbage and scant scrub, April 23 ; and again 
sporadically up the cooler course of the East Road river 
approaching Di-er-kan, on May 5, occasionally waving its huge 
white faces amid the scantier coppice on the slopes. In all these 
stations it is a very thin stiff growth of two to three straight 
stems (5-6 feet high above Foo-er-Gai), each terminating in one 
vast flower ; but further up the Blackwater, in the hot regions 
about Lodani in Tibet, Purdom reports it as developing into a 
better furnished and more voluminous bush. 
Paeonia sp. (F 67) (? P. Beresowskyi) abounds between 8,000-9,000 
feet on the alps of Thundercrown and Satanee — not a woodland 
plant, but loving grassy, stony dells and glades on the open alp, 
in a way that carries one back to the pink Paeonies on Baldo. 
It is in my eyes a species of singular charm and delightful- 
ness ; it has voluminous lucent foliage and stems of 12-20 inches, 
carrying several flowers in all sorts of clear and clean tones of 
rosy-pink, light or dark, with a golden eye of stamens and so 
intoxicating a fragrance of roses that all the hill becomes a rose- 
garden as you go by its generous jungles of large and lovely 
blossom in May and June. 
? Paris sp. (F 430) is a woodlander abundant in the alpine forests 
of the Satanee range, and exactly recalling Paris quadrifolia but 
that it grows in single crowns, is rather taller, and has both 
leaf-whorl and flower composed of many more parts and con- 
sequently wildly spidery in effect. The flower, however, has 
no show or merit ; but it is followed by a dense-packed many- 
rayed cluster of vermilion-scarlet berries, much more brilliant 
than in Iris foetidissima. This alone gives it attraction. 
Pertia sp. (F 340) is a queer little twiggy branching bush from the 
alpine coppice, of which I can say no more than that it grows like 
a bunchy Hazel of 4-5 feet and wears in autumn odd fluffets 
of seed, as if the achenes of a Prenanthes had floated off and 
got stuck on the sprigs of a Corylus. 
