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SUMMARY:
Inventory of seed collections recorded since Tongkyuk on 8 January 1947, listing numerous taxa with field numbers. Notes include plant types, colours, heights, and fruits (e.g., Rhododendron spp., Clematis, Gaultheria, Viburnum, Quercus, Acer).

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Seed collected since Tongkyuk 8.1.47.

12039 Cremanthodium sp. 12236 Gaultheria discolor white.
12063 Deutzia Philadelphus tomentosus 12237 Daphne longilobata
12064 Piptanthus sp. 12238 Gaultheria wardii blue.
12078 (2) Viburnum atrocyaneum 12239 Rhod. sp. virgatum ser?
12081 Ground orchid 12245 Rhod. sp. scopulorum
12084 Clematis yunnanensis 12249 Quercus.
12085 (3) Tree bunches br. red fruit. 12263 Peach. Prunus amygdalus.
12089 Comp. shrub. Senecio scandens 12504 Acer
12093 " - " (bright yellow) Senecio scandens 12505 Rhod. trichocladum
12095 Shrub 4'-6' not seen Pyracantha semiserrata 12508 Pieris formosa
12098 " - " 10'-15'
12099 Clematis sp.
12100 Clematis sp. yunnanensis
12105 Shrub flr cream fruit scarlet. Damnacanthus indicus
12106 (2) Anemone sp.
12117 Rhod. Madd. Ser. sino-nuttallii
12125 Daphne longilobata
12135 Euonymus.
12141 Juniper. Cupressus torulosa
12142 Tree 100' not known. Cedrela
12145 Codonopsis. Leptocodon gracilis
12161 Aster.
12181 Tree not known.
12188 Briggsia Schefflera sp.
12208 Rhod. sp. (irroratum ser?)
12231 Rhod. sp. scopulorum
12231 A " - "

SUMMARY:
The diarist describes very tall pines and junipers, birches and oaks, and notes the striking jade-green colour of the Po Tsangpo river. On 14th Jan. near Sangyü, Ludlow and Henry took the pony path while the diarist and B. followed the riverside through dense wet forest with massive junipers, passing Rhododendron trees near Chahzam and old cultivated flats with ruins said to have been destroyed by the Chinese in '12.

CONTENT:
Cupressus torulosa 12141
Cedrela 12142

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flower line. The only interest is in the trees, which grow to enormous heights. Some of the pines - (P. tabulaeformis) must be nearly 200 feet. And near here there are really magnificent junipers which are certainly 200 feet and straight as a rod. Camp here very poor, beside the 'spring'. Birches also are fine on this march, and there are many oaks. The colour of the Po Tsangpo river is very fine indeed, copper sulphate (pale 'deep jade green') exactly. Both rivers are the same now. Left at 8.30. In at 2.30.

14th Jan. SANGYÜ. Left at 9.0 : in at 2.0. Ludlow and Henry went the pony path, a climb of 1000 feet. B. and I kept to the river side. Both tracks are not easy. Both were curiously uninteresting botanically and ornithologically. At first the forest was mostly dense wet forest, with magnificent specimens of Juniper, measuring up to 20 feet in circumference. We passed, about 1 mile from Chahzam, about a dozen Rhododendron trees, the same as seen on the Pan above Trulung. I heard today Monal for the first time. Here there is a large flat area, old cultivation, with old ruined houses, destroyed by the Chinese in '12. There is a hut and