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NOTES FROM A JOURNEY TO NEPAL. 
plains and not higher than 7,000 feet. There was but one excuse for 
writing it, i.e.^ the great want of knowledge of the Botany of that part 
of the chain. 
The outstanding result is an expression of the easternness of the 
vegetation. It is so much more like that of the Darjeeling District 
than that of the North-Western Himalaya. In bringing forward this 
statement I do but emphasize what Sir Joseph Hooker has already 
stated in the Imperial Gazetteer of India (Oxford, 1907) ir, 165, 
where he classes Central Nepdl with Sikkim. 
The botanist who has not visited both places has largely to rely 
on statistics for comparative purposes. I have treated above, as far as 
I can, my subject from his point of view and have shown that 
1 . The sA\ (Shorea rohusta) forests of the tropical forest belt seem 
not to possess trees of Schleickera trijuga, Buchanania 
latifolia^ Pterocarpus Marsupium and Bassta latifoliaf 
which are wanting likewise in the Sikkim Terai forests, 
but present in the Kheri forests ; while they possess Spondias 
axillaris and Symplocos spicafa^ of which the reverse is 
the case. They are thus a little more eastern than western. 
2. The pine forests of the Chorea Gh 4 ti hills have six plants 
in them obviously eastern, viz.^ Meliosma simplicifolWy 
Begonia gigantea, Mussaenda Roxburghii^ Vernonia 
subsessilis and Echinacanthus longistylus^ and considering 
their Flora as a whole are rather eastern. 
3. The tangle of vegetation in the Bhdinsa Duhdn gorge contains 
the following distinctly eastern ip\dJ\is—^Brackystemma 
calycinum^ Schoepjia fragrShS^ Natsiatum herptticum^ 
Shuteria vestita^ Dalbergia volubiliSy Mezoneurum cucul'- 
latuniy Acacia concinnay Acacia pennaiay Albizzia lucida^ 
Duabanga sonnet at ioidesy Hedyotis scand^nSy Torenia 
fragranSy Utricularia orbiculatay Sirobilanthes sabi- 
nianus, Elatostema rupestre, Otockilus alba, Arundina 
hambusifoliay Pandanus furcatus and Rhaphidopkora 
glauca. It is distinctly eastern. 
4. The cultivation* belt carries 37 plants which have not been 
collected west of Nep^l, and only 1 1 which have not been 
collected east. 
5. The temperate forest belt carries 28 plants which have not 
been collected west of Nep 4 !, and only 3 or 4 which have 
not been collected east. 
Now having myself been in both places, I wish next to exchange the 
statistical method for the ecological, and to compare the eye-appear- 
