NOTES FROM A JOURNEY TO NEPAL. 
By /. //. Bvrkill, 
November 38th, 1907, after marching along nearly one hundred 
miles of the Nepalese frontier between Jair.agar and RaksAI, 1 
turned, with the permission of the Nepalese Darbar, into the kingdom 
of Nep^l and reached Kh^tmdndu by the usual route on December the 
second. Thence with my kind friend, Lieut. -Colonel J. Manners- 
Smith, V. C., the Resident, 1 visited theTrisuli valley, in the neighbour- 
hood of Niakot. 
I returned from Nepdl to the plains by a route through Pherphing, 
which diversifies the first seventeen miles of the way, 
TIi€ writer coilected at the- same seasoit as Walll cli. 
My dates almost coincide seasonally with the dates of Wallich^s 
march to KhAtmAndu, and we seem, he and 1, to have gathered at a 
period 87 years apart the same plants in the same spots. 
There is no clear record left ot Wallich^s wanderings ; but from E. 
Gardnor^s letters to him preserved in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cal- 
cutta, and from dates on the labels of the first plants which he col- 
lected in the kingdom of NepAl it is evident that he was at Parsua in 
the teraiat the edge of the forest on or about December the 12th, 1820, 
at Chessapdni on the i8th, at Thdnkot on the 20th, and at the British 
residency on December 21st. There he remained until about Novem- 
ber 7th, 1821, visiting, perhaps, only one place outside the Nep^l 
valley, Niakot, but persuading pilgrims to bring back curiosities 
to him when they went to Gossain ThAn. 
On his return march he reached Bichiakoh on the iith or 12th of 
November, and was at Patna on the 22nd. 
I was encamped at Parsua on the night of November 28th. I 
returned through Parsua on December 15th, and I spent the nights of 
November 30th and December i4tli at Chessapani. 
It is ill gleaning for novelties after a botanist with the keenness of 
Wallich : so I got no more than three species of Impatiens and 
apparently one Eriocaulon, 
However, what I can, and propose to do, in the following pages is 
to present a' little information upon the features of the vegetation. 
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