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SUMMARY:
Notes record minimum temperatures and weather at Latso and Lunang on 19–21 December, seed collections with numbers near Tse and Tumbatse, and Kodachrome photographs started at Dan with scenes at Dan Phu Chu and Tongkyuk Dzong. Photo subjects include Hippophae and snow peaks, dated 21–23 December 1946.

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Min. temp. Latso. 19-20 Dec. 4° F. Snowed during night cleared up by 4.0 am.
Lunang. 20-21 " -4° F. Clear all night.

Seed collected: 12013 Androsace small. again taken near Tse. 19/12
P. capitata ? near Tumbatse.
12015 Notholirion hyacinthinum Tumbatse
12016 Cypripedium sp. " N.
12017 Berberis purple fruit. " S
12018 " red " " N
12019 Rhod. " S.

Kodachrome 10. Started at Dan on 21. 12. 46.
Scenes at Dan with snow peak at head at Dan Phu Chu.
Hippophae rhamnoides, with snow pk. behind.
Close up of Hippophae fruit. 21/12.
Tongkyuk Dzong to snow peak. 22/12
Rest ho. at Tongkyuk Dzong. 23/12

SUMMARY:
Notes minimum temperatures for 17–19 Dec at Tse and Djeng, and a boiling-point/temperature reading at Temu La on 19 Dec 1946. Lists Kodachrome 9 photographs taken on 20 Dec 1946 between Latso (Lunang) and Lunang, including scenes near Tumbatse in Rong Chu, lichen on spruce, a flock feeding on Hippophae rhamnoides, and views near Chunyima.

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Min temp. 17-18 Dec. Tse. 13° F. Clear.
Min temp. 18-19 Dec. Djeng. not taken -

13903
1.0022

13903
27806
27806

13932

B.P. of Temu La. 186°.4. Temp 33°. 1230. 19.12.46.
= 13932

Kodachrome 9. All taken on 20.12.46 between Latso (Lunang) and
Lunang except last unit.

Scenes near Tumbatse in Rong Chu
Beside frozen river, Tumbatse.
Lichen on Picea likiangensis.
Tumbatse.
Flock of feeding on Hippophae rhamnoides.
Lunang.
Near Chunyima. Spruce with lichen.

SUMMARY:
Travelled about 9 miles down the valley near Tora under fine weather that later brought hail, noting Iris lactea in flower and likely matching K. Ward's 'Karta' iris, with poplars, willows, and buckthorn near a hillside monastery. Sheep were seen struggling for forage during lambing season, six partridges were shot, and a possible Ceratostigma was observed.

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Locals say they are white.

Tora 19th Tora 9 miles B.P. 189.47 Temp. 49° Time 4.30pm. Approx ht. :

A fine day, clouding over, with some hail in the afternoon.

The iris (Iris lactea), which we saw first yesterday, continued down the valley, is here in flower in a few places. It does not appear new, and yet surely must be K. Ward's 'Karta' iris. I have a few seeds of last year, will collect more in the autumn. The road goes down the valley the whole way, passing ruined villages and inhabited ones here and there and some cultivation. There is a biggish monastery here, perched on a hill on the right bank about 300' above the bank, and a number of trees, mostly poplar and willow (Salix babylonica?), which will soon be out. There is also some buckthorn scrub (Hippophae rhamnoides). The sheep have an awful time. On the plateau at 15,000–16,000' they have some grass which seems to do them pretty well. Down here there is no grass, and we see them in the fields, which have not yet been sown, scraping up the earth just like hens, to find some roots coming up. How they live like that I don't know. And this is the lambing season, and most have already lambed. We shot 6 partridges on the way down, and saw quite a number. Here I think there is a Ceratostigma.