Part 53 - Charme, 28 July — plant observations and encounter

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SUMMARY:
Notes on flowering stages of Cyananthus and Primula, with some seeds of P. atrodentata collected. The party met a Bhutanese man with his family returning from Pemako, who spoke with Tenduk and described harsh conditions there. Entry made at Charme after a rainy night that cleared in the morning.

CONTENT:
taken before. Cyananthus will soon be fully out. At present it is just coming out here and there. P. sikkimensis is in masses half way up from here. I counted on one head 76 flowers. Mah Tsongpen here, who had no trouble on the way, but did not find very much either. The summer flowers are mostly getting over now, and the autumn ones are not yet out. Seeds are not ripe either, except P. atrodentata, of which I have taken some more.

We passed today a man and his wife and 4 children. He was a Bhutanese from Tjong who had gone to Pemako some years ago - with 2 children. He was frightfully glad to see his own countryman Tenduk, and had a long talk with him. Pemako he describes as pretty awful, rain and snow, and terrible passes, usually closed by snow. However the rain did not worry him much. He said he could easily stop that - "it is quite simple to stop rain or bring it on," he said. He is returning to his own land, and I hope he will be happy there; a nice man he was, with a very cheerful open face, with a nice looking wife and kids.

28th July. Charme. 10300' 7 miles. Rained all night but was just fine in the morning and the sun is shining here. I made up