Habit. Habitat, j Nomenclature. 
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NOTE ON THE EAST HIMALAYAN 
way cannot fail to remark how different in appearance its high level 
ally is. 
For convenience of comparison the notes are arranged in parallel 
columns : — - 
A. begoniafolium 
in East Himalaya. 
Called Palit-kung by the Lepchas. 
(kung=tree). 
Called Anowrukh by the Pahariyas, in 
allusion to its use for plough -vhandles. 
(Anow=plough-handle, rukh=tree). 
The style of its branching makes wood 
properly angled for this purpose. 
Found from the lowest valleys up to 
5,000 ft. [up to 8,000 ft. in West 
Himalaya]. 
Tall tree, up to 60 ft., usually erect. 
Branches horizontal and regularly 
angled from node to node. The leaves 
hang almost perpendicularly from the 
brandies. A very rank growth of 
branches is made by young trees and 
by the growing parts of older ones. 
From this growth in the Spring short 
secondary flowering growths spring. 
Deciduous in the cold season • 
Leaves on primary growths very large 
(up to 10 in. X 8 in.) and often very 
angled, sometimes irregularly so. 
Tufts of hairs in axils of nerves and 
scattered hair along nerves at back of 
leaves. 
A. alpinum 
in East Himalaya. 
Called Palit-nyok by the Lepchas. 
(nyok = sluggish or dilatory— an 
allusion to its later leafage and 
flowering.) 
No Pahariya name that we can learn. 
Found from 6,000 ft. to 9,000 ft. 
Erect tree, up to 40 ft. Branches ascend - 
ing and not so angled from node to 
node, leaves not hanging perpendicu- 
larly and the two kinds of growth not 
so differentiated. 
Deciduous till late Spring. 
Leaves seldom much angled and fairly 
regular in size (5 in. X4 in.) 
Spare hair all over the veins at back of 
leaf. 
But the leaf character appears to be 
somewhat unreliable in both ; the tufts 
poem to be absent or to disappear, and 
to be less noticeable on the leaves of 
the secondary growth. Leaves in 
secondary growth not so large and 
not so distinctly angled, but always 
more so than the leaves of the other 
species. 
