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SUMMARY:
List of Primula taxa with collection numbers, forms and varieties, and locality notes such as Lo La, Molo, Langong Chu, and Langong. No dates or personal names are recorded on this page.

CONTENT:
3759 O Primula Cortusoides Sect. = 3649. Lo La.

3762. ✓ " x Omphalogramma brachysiphon. " 15. O
      " Amethystina .. ? sp nov. "
3763. ✓ " Roylei, laeta " p
3764. ✓ " aff. atrodentata. = 3636. " d
      3779 ✓ " tsariensis. " 16 P
      3780 ✓ " " dark colour form. " p
3765. O " Genestieriana ?? " 17 ?
      3782 ✓ " Roylei (no eye) laeta? " P
3766. ✓ " " var alba. " 18 p
3767. ✓ " ioessa. " 19 S
3768. ✓ " sikkimensis. Molo. 20 S
3769. ✓ " Jaffreyana. " 21
      3848 O " prenantha. Langong Chu. 22 C
3770. O " Dickieana, var Pantlingii. " 23 A
3771. ✓ " ioessa. "
3772. ✓ " Hopeana. Langong. 24. S
      3892 ✓ " Littledalei " 25 O
      3893 ✓ " chamoethauma " 26 P
      3894 ✓ " x Roylei? Calithauma Wilson. " P
      3895 ✓ " macrophylla " 27.
      3912 ✓ " sikkimensis. "
      3914 O " yargongensis. " 28. A
      3917 ✓ " dryadifolia Jonarduni. " 29 D
      3918 O " rhodochroa. " 30
      3919 ✓ " tsariensis var alba. " p
      3923 ✓: 3779 " " " "
      3932 ✓ " sikkimensis sect. (pudibunda?) " 31 S

SUMMARY:
Notes describe eggs and nesting of Trochalopteron henrici near Migyitun, including egg color, nest placement, and clutch size, with laying in May and early June. A list of plant taxa with specimen numbers (including several Rhododendron and Corydalis) is recorded.

CONTENT:
L. 100 Set eggs c/3 of Trochalopteron henrici (Prince Henri's Laughing Thrush).
Pale greenish. They are exactly like those of the common Song Thrush at home.
L. Dis 77. I do not think it occurs south of the main range except at Migyitun.
We found numerous nests, they are generally placed in bushes, seldom at no
great distance from the ground. They are rather untidy structures of dried
grass, dead leaves, strips of birch bark, moss etc. lined with dry twisted
grass. Clutches vary from 2-3. Eggs laid in May & early June.

Migyitun May 26.
R. lindleyi 1702 1715
sp. nov. miniatum 1710
? Prim. sandemaniana 1708
(Cawdorii)
yargongensis 1709
tsariensis 1711
macrophylla 1712
sikkimensis 1714
Corydalis 1705

SUMMARY:
After an early start the party reached Weitang, noting Primula bellidifolia in bud, P. crispata, and particularly P. calderiana in white, yellow, and hybrid forms, while other expected species were absent, possibly due to heavy yak grazing. News arrived that the Druk Locha (Bumthang Representative) from Lhasa is en route to Bumthang and expected shortly; the diarist recalls meeting him previously in Lhasa with Betty.

CONTENT:
Signs of clearing and we left at 5:30 for Weitang. Weitang at last! The day turned out to be lovely, but again we saw nothing of interest. I did at last see P. bellidifolia in bud, and P. crispata was there too. But no gracilipes, no whitei, no macrophylla, or macrocarpa, glabra or puella. Either none of them exist here, or yaks eat them all. Perhaps there are so many yaks that we will find this area very poor indeed. It almost looks like it. The only interesting thing was to find P. Calderiana becoming more common in a white or yellow form than in its true violet purple form. I took a good many variations, and called them P. Calderiana, hybrid white, hybrid powder blue violet, hybrid yellow, and P. strumosa. I am sure that is what it is, and had the same times in central Bhutan in 1937 at a later date and more profuse. The great news today is that the Druk Locha (Bumthang Representative) in Lhasa, is on his way to Bumthang, will be here tomorrow or next day. He has 8 mounted people, 11 in all and 120 animals of kit, stores etc. It is the same Locha as was there when Betty and I were in Lhasa, so I must meet him and talk to him I suppose. He was always very pleasant to us in Lhasa. His son—the spoilt brat as we called