NOTES FROM A JOURNEY TO NEPAL 
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Distribution of llie moutnne plants alongf the Himalaya : some avoid 
vet Sikkim. 
The montane plants are for the most part of general distribution 
along the Himalaya, a very large portion of them growing all along 
the chains from Kashmir eastwards to Sikkim and Bhutan. A slightly 
less part while not growing in Kashmir grow in Garhwil and Kumdon. 
and thence extend eastwards through Nepdl to Sikkim and Bhutan. 
^Six interesting plants of this wide distribution avoid the wet hills of 
Sikkim but re-appear in the mountains east of Sikkim : they are 
Hypericum patulum^ Hex excelsa^ Rosa moschata, Cotnus oblcnga^ 
yasminum humile^ Trackehspermum fragrans and Osyris arborea 
Randia tetraspermat and Prinsepia utilise while not completely 
avoiding Sikkim, are there confined to the drier remote regions in the 
interior of the mountain^e Leptodermis lanceolata is very similarly 
distributed. 
Eastern and Western Elements. 
The following plaiits are eastern ; — Schima Wallichiiy Euonymus 
Vagans, Priotropis cyiisoides, Neillia thyrsiflora, Dickroa febrifuga^ 
Tiarella polyphylla, O^yspora* paniculata, Begonia laciniata, 
Luculia gratissima, Sen^cio densiflorus, Senecio vagans, Pratia 
hegonifoliay Gaultheria fragrantissima, Maesa ramentacea, Maesa 
macrophylla, Myrsine semiserrata, Myrsine capitellata, Symplocos 
theaefolia, Buddleia macrostachya, Swertia dilatata, Swertia ner* 
vosa, Strohilanthes pentstemonoides, Leucas cUiata, l^oranthus 
vdoratus^ Loranthus Scu'^rula, Loranthus umbelUfer, Otochilus 
alba, and Tupistra aurantiaca : and the following are western 
Rhus Wallichii, Swertia paniculata, Strohilanthes glutinosus, and 
doubtfully bacillaris. 
On the whole then the flora of these ridge tops, where clouds are 
apt to gather, and the trees, as in Sikkim, to be festooned with mosses, 
is more eastern lhan western. 
One plant of the belt has a peculiar distribution. It is Ranunculus 
pennsylvanicus, which while climbing to b,ooo ft. in the Khisi bills, 
mountains of Burma and Nepil has been found on the Pan jab plain at 
Ludhiana and on the Ganges at Bhojpur Both W^lich and Scully 
collected it in Nepil. 
CONCLUSIONS. 
What is written above is, indeed, but a superficial account of the 
features of the vegetation between Raksal and the Himalaya of Central 
Nep^l as far' back as 35 miles in a straight line from the skirts of the 
* Although not tneationed in the Flora of British India, as found in Sikkim Hypericum 
PeUulumt yasminum humUt and Truchelaspermum frag tan* do occur there. ££ditor]. 
