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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.

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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

SUMMARY:
The diarist and Pasang pressed 16 flowers, while worrying that Yumden had not yet returned in thick mist. On 7 July at Haat, after heavy night rain the weather cleared with hail; they explored a nala with lakes, found masses of P. waddellii and P. jonarduni among Diapensia himalaicum, and the diarist stalked a herd of burrhel.

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I don't feel as if today had been a good one, and Pasang and I have 16 flowers in the press. Yumden at 5.0 pm. is not yet back! He sometimes does this, but I am a little worried as he went off by himself, and the mist was very thick for most of the day.

7th July. Haat. Rather a good day in some ways. There was terrific rain last night, but it was fine when we left at 6.0 this morning, and even the extreme tip of Kangkar Punsum was clear. It remained almost fine until we were a mile from camp at 3.0 pm. when I was glad to hear thunder, though only two claps. Since that did what it usually does, and cleared the atmosphere at once, after an hour we had bright sun. Now at 5.30 we're having a heavy hail shower, which I also think should be a good sign for tomorrow. The dry Tibetan plateau air is fighting the monsoon, and I hope for one fine day. We went up a nala opposite camp, and were somewhat disappointed near the first lake, but there are 3 lakes, and the place looked very good. Of chief interest were P. waddellii in masses on N & W slopes, and at last P. jonarduni, looking very pretty growing among Diapensia himalaicum, which here seems to be very late. I saw a herd of burrhel which I stalked quite nicely, and got to within about 50