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SUMMARY:
Field notes from Nathampa and Trün describe rhododendron seed collecting, generally fine weather with some rain and evening snow up the Karutra valley, and a lost woodpecker after a shot. Ticks are noted as troublesome, and Tsongpen suffers from fever, possibly due to the cold valley wind.

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further up, and they may have frightened off any tragopan there may have been. Nothing of interest seen on the way up. Rhododendrons at the nala 1 m below camp are by no means ripe, and I fear they won't come on, although I have taken twigs and marked the ends. Fine till the afternoon when a little rain. Clouded most of the day over on the hills.

Nathampa
27th October. Halt. - A perfect day: in the evening some snow up the Karutra valley. Tsongpen and I went up the Rhododendron valley, and did pretty well. We got seeds of 8 or 9 rhododendrons, mostly fully ripe. It is odd how much earlier they are here than at Lung, presumably because it is wetter at Lung. I shot a woodpecker, but it fell down into a hole among rocks, which led down further than we could see, and we had to give it up. No sign of blood pheasant or of tragopan. On the whole one of the better days. Ticks a nuisance. They are very common now at Lung and here, mostly in the bamboo jungle.

28th October. Trün. 8m? Fine all day, but rain on the hills, and clouded over most of the day. Tsongpen has fever today, caused I suppose by the cold wind there is always blowing up the valley all day. He thinks it is tick fever, but I don't think they have

Rhodod. 2757
Trichocladum 2758
exasperatum 2759 2761
camelliaeflorum 2760 2765
pumilum 2762
brachyanthum 2764
tsarongense 2766
oblatum 2770
Enkianthus deflexus 2733

SUMMARY:
List of plant specimens with numbers recorded at Migyitun on 24 May, including several Primula species, Meconopsis simplicifolia, Cephalanthera longifolia, Pleione scopulorum, Cypripedium elegans, and Cassiope selaginoides.

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Migyitun 24th May

sp. no. Chrysosplenium ludlowii 1683
Enkianthus deflexus 1684
Primula alpicola var. violacea 1685
Primula hopeana 1686
Primula alpicola 1689
Primula tsariensis 1693
Primula calderiana 1694
Meconopsis simplicifolia 1687
Cephalanthera longifolia 1688
Phoebe's nest egg - Pleione scopulorum 1691
Cypripedium elegans 1695
Cassiope selaginoides 1696

SUMMARY:
Notes from Chendebi on the Trongsa Road record plant observations and collections, plans to stay two days, and mention of H.H.'s 'kazana' caravan of 200 loads passing through. The writer recalls a very wet visit in 1933 with comic hardships, and on 12 May notes more rain and identifies Rhododendron griffithianum as common just below Chendebi.

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Chendebi - Trongsa Road R. arboreum 3017, R. virgatum 3021, Enkianthus deflexus 3020, Gaultheria griffithiana 3019
Chendebi. R. rhaedoforum 3035 Berberis 3034

...takes its place & is very common just below Chendebi. A few Rhod. edgeworthii too were seen. We will stay here two days. In any case that would be necessary, as H.H.'s 'kazana' - his lakh of rupees & many other things - 200 coolie loads - are just in Chendebi this evening, & they have to go on tomorrow.

My recollections of Chendebi in 1933 are amusing but not very pleasant. We never saw more than 100 yards or so in any direction owing to the thick mist. It rained hard all the time we were here, & dinner in our bamboo village was comic. Rain came in through the roof everywhere, & a young torrent found its way to the dining room. We all sat on the table with our feet on the chairs like that. I also remember a plate of soup being brought in with a leech on the edge of it. It has started to rain this evening, but I don't think will be very much.

12th May. Halt Chendebi. Some rain yesterday evening, & more again this evening. Went out in the morning, & picked up a few flowers. The fine rhod. we found yesterday is Rhod. griffithianum. It is a beauty & very common just below Chendebi, but seems to stop abruptly here. Also one shrub of another red rhododendron, which...