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SUMMARY:
The diarist sends the lads to Sharietang and notes target plants to collect, then observes blood pheasant chicks and attempts cine shots of the female. On 8 June, with Lhakpa and Ngudup, they make a rapid early trip to Hubsing La hoping to see Kula Kangri, viewing Kankarpunsum instead, with fine weather until evening.

CONTENT:
here, I sent the lads down to Sharietang for the night. I know there must now be such things as Philadelphus, Deutzia, Rosa macrophylla, and many other things besides, which we must arrange to get. I think they should go down once in July too to see what is happening there then too. I did little here, but took some small things, and went out looking for blood pheasant and young. I found the latter and caught two separately. The parents never went far away, never more than 20 yards, but the chicks were so small they could not 'cheep', and so the parents would not come into the open as much as I had hoped. I got a few poor cine shots at the ♀, but could not catch the ♂.

8th June Halt. A very fine morning, in fact no rain till the evening. I had told Lhakpa not to come early this morning, expecting rain, and in any case there being no hurry to go and look for nothing. So he came at 5.15 only. Then I got up and decided to go to the pass as quick as possible to see the snow, including Kula Kangri which we had been told we would see from there. Ngudup was not thrilled, as he has become a bit slack these days of little to do. And Lhakpa took 3/4 hour to get breakfast. What he does always beats me. These people have no idea, as the Kashmiri has, of getting things going. Anyway we were off at 6.15 and went very fast, getting to the Hubsing La in time at 7.15, to see Kankarpunsum very prettily, with clouds around, but clear itself. There was no sign of Kula Kangri, so we went on, to the next ridge, but again there was no

SUMMARY:
Page lists seeds and plant specimens from Suabjetang with collection numbers, including Philadelphus (19075), Deutzia (19074), Streptopus (19079), Cypripedium (19076), a tree called 'Lachashing' (19077), Bird cherry, Big Cotoneaster (19083) noted at a small bridge, and Rosa mac. (19082).

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Seed from Suabjetang
Philadelphus No. 19075
Deutzia - 19074
Streptopus - 19079
Cypripedium - 19076
Tree "Lachashing" - 19077
Briggsia? -
Bird cherry -
Big Cotoneaster - 19083 at small bridge.
Rosa mac. - 19082

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:
Heavy traffic on the route is attributed to HH’s fair in Bumthang beginning on the 7th, alongside plans for reforms such as cash payment for work. At Sumitang, the party had fine weather but a delayed start (likely due to Ngudup); the writer prefers Changchuk managing transport, and with most seed still unripe, Pasang will return in a month to collect target species from beyond Sharitang and around Bumthang/Kyikyi La, after noting a jelly-coated aquatic plant and cooler conditions than Bumthang.

CONTENT:
Lot of coming and going on this route, perhaps especially just now as HH holds a fair in Bumthang on the 7th for seven days. People come from quite a long way away for it. He told me he expected 1,000 people at the fair, from every part of Bhutan and also some from Tibet. This is one of the innovations of late years. But it is nothing to what HH plans for the near future, like payment in cash for work done - "after seeing that the work is good" he added. It is a pity that this must be introduced, but I suppose it must. Inevitably it will lead to trouble; when that will be depends on the time money takes to govern everything, as it does elsewhere.

6th September. Sumitang. Fine most of the day, and fine most of last night too. Some difficulty in getting off this morning, due probably to Ngudup's dislike of leaving early. I must say Changchuk is a much pleasanter man to have running one's transport arrangements. We got a little seed, but nearly everything is just not quite ripe yet. Pasang will have to return here in a month's time, and make a hurried collection of the better things. For most of these we would have to come very far beyond Sharitang. We want seed of the following: "Lachasung", Deutzia, Philadelphus, "Kushim sung", "Rugosung", and from further up, the big white Clematis, but this can be had from Bumthang or the Kyikyi La. I took a queer plant out of a small 5' deep lake today. It is nothing to look at, but it is covered, 1/8" all over with a perfectly clear transparent jelly, which has made pressing rather difficult. The jelly at first is not sticky, but later on seems to become more and more so. It is much cooler up here than in Bumthang, and more like May when I came up first.