Part 65 - Halts and plant searches near Gormotangha, 3–5 June

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SUMMARY:
The party halted for several days, searching in different directions but finding few plants, notably P. alpicola v. luna and Mec. sinuata just coming into flower. With the area yielding little, they plan to move to Gormotangha, whose lower elevation and cliffs may be more promising; Yumden brought in two young blood pheasants.

CONTENT:
3rd June Halt. A lovely morning and fine till 3:00 pm, then mostly rain. Three of us went in three directions and we scraped together 6 plants. There seems nothing here at all. P. alpicola v. luna is now just coming into flower, river bank. It is one of the few things which is commoner here than I have seen it elsewhere. Tomorrow we must try lower down, and if that is no use, move on to Gormotangha as soon as possible. It looks good, but it may also be late.

4th June. Halt. Heavy rain in evening, last night, cleared up and was fine today. I only went down to the river, and found nothing but Mec. sinuata, just coming into flower. The lads went downstream, further. But they also saw nothing of any interest at all. I have decided to go myself to Gormotangha tomorrow, see the place. And I think we should try to move on there next day complete. It looks better than this and is lower, has very fine cliffs beyond, which should hold some interesting flowers. But still we may be early. Yumden found young blood pheasant today, stupidly brought two of the young here with him.

5th June Halt. This place seems completely dead. I don't know where the flowers are. We've gone high and we've gone low, and we can't find anything. I went to Gormotangha today and looked at some most promising cliffs. But there was nothing to