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SUMMARY:
At Haer, the diarist reports persistent rains and mist, a strenuous climb through gullies yielding no new finds but abundant Primula (including P. macrophylla var. macrocarpa, P. soldanelloides, P. sapphirina, P. tenuiloba, and P. caveana), and intentions to cross toward the Trongsa valley. With the monsoon returning, the diarist remains in camp doing photos while Pasang and Tundru explore a nearby nala; Ngudup’s reports of heavy rains and Tundru’s sore feet are noted.

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One more fine day, before the break comes again. There was lots of rain in the night, and has been since the fine days came. Long may it continue thus. Ngudup always gives such awful accounts of the rain from about now on for a month, that I can hardly expect much more clear weather. Tundru's feet don't improve much. We will miss him, as he always was a good boy, and always for some good things. And he had learnt to press flowers well, though not to change them well.

13th July. Haer. Thick mist in the morning up till 10:00 am, by which time we had climbed one of the awful gullies just below and behind camp. What a climb, and there was nothing new at all. What was there, in greater numbers than I've ever seen, was P. macrophylla v macrocarpa - in the hundred. We looked over the other side, but it was all too misty to see anything. We came down one gully this side of the one we went up, equally steep, and almost as hard work among all the boulders with very unsteady rocks. Again nothing new, but we marked a place where roots of P. soldanelloides could be taken. There were very few in flower, but a number of plants. Beside it grows P. sapphirina, and close to, also P. tenuiloba and P. caveana. The P. caveana up there was remarkably behind time, still in perfect flower. All these days now are disappointing, and I'll be glad to get over the pass to the Trongsa valley. Perhaps it won't be any better, but it will have many new places for us to try in any way.

14th July. Haer. The monsoon is back in all its fierceness again today, with thick mist and heavy rain all day, and last night. But we have had a really good break since the 8th, and can't complain. I again stayed in camp today, did photos, while Pasang and Tundru went out and up the nala on the right bank some distance up, but not too farther up, which leads...

SUMMARY:
Notes the arrangement of numbered plant specimens in bottom, middle, and top layers, with plans to add several Primula species. Describes a shift from mist to thunder and heavy rain, followed by a clear day on 26 September at Marlung, colder than Waitang, with yaks, dzopas, and mention of a local boy who had previously broken his arm.

CONTENT:
Each plant is labelled with a tin label which has been oiled, they are packed in this order.
No. 1

Bottom layer
19750 19757 19750
19766 19235 19712
Maus back here

Middle layer
19771 19768A 19764 19226
19167 19768C 19767
19330 19768B 19309 19146
Maus back here

Top layer
19123 19804 19404 19777
19366
19716 19420 19373 19722
Maus back

The top story is as yet empty, but in it will go P. tsariensis, P. soldanelloides, a cushion androsace (globifera?) - more P. Waddellii. That is probably all the Marlung, when we should have a few P. tsariensis white ordinary, P. uniflora, P. umbratilis white. Today really felt like the end of the rain, although there was much mist early on. The day has been lovely and clear, with big cumulus clouds gradually collecting. Now at 3.0 pm there is thunder and torrential rain, the first thunder we've had, and I expect a sparkling day tomorrow.

26th September. Marlung. Today dawned beautifully clear, and was the first day we had had like it with no mist, even on the hill tops. It was quite interesting to see all the hill tops, because even in the fine days we have occasionally had, there has always been mist on the tops. However a fine veil of high cloud quickly came over the sky, and by 11.0 there was no sun. It seems much colder up here than Waitang. There are a few yaks here now and some dzopas: with the latter is the small boy who broke his arm just before I left here in July. I am very glad to

SUMMARY:
Page lists Primula specimens with notes on morphology, flower colors, abundance, and growth habits, including forms such as P. caveana, P. muscoides, P. glabra, and P. waddellii. Mentions comparison with earlier collections at Waitang and a reference to a specimen from 1938.

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(3) 136 33.

53. 19185 P. atrodentata Same as 3636 in 1938.
    19186 P. walshii Scape up to 1" long bearing 1, 2 or 3 flowers. No farina.
54. 19190 P. bellidifolia.
    19195 P. sikkimensis. A fine form with big flowers, yellow or almost white.
    19203 P. muscoides. 34.
    19204 P. strumosa. See my 19000 A B or C taken at Waitang where a glorious mixture of colours
    19211 P. caveana v. alba
55. 19212 P. tenuiloba
    19213 P. concinna 35. I think this is correct because of the fairly copious yellow
    19216 P. macrophylla v. macrocarpa
    19226 P. caveana v. alba. A good collection of 5 sheets, but they are odd plants
    19227 P. capitata.
56. 19231 P. muscoides. Mixed blue and white, which grow actually touching each
    19244 P. macrophylla v. macrocarpa
    19245 P. glabra
    19251 P. umbratilis. Not fully grown.
    19255 P. caveana - full grown.
57. 19318 P. atrodentata. With new plants growing out from old flower head.
    19325 P. glabra.
    19330 P. waddellii 36. The colour of this is so distinct, that it cannot be confused with P.
    19332 P. umbratilis. I have never seen so much as on this cliff. All of it is very pale indeed, or some
    19346 P. soldanelloides 37 I never noticed before the quite different texture of the corolla. Ask for
58. 19364 P. muscoides. White form. Here v. common.
    19373 P. waddellii. Very common indeed here, in quite big clumps, not singly, as
    19378 P. jonardunii. 38 Common here, on open steep grass hillsides, not so much
    19383 P. caveana. Much scarcer here than round about Waitang.
59. 19392 P. concinna v. alba. 80% of P. concinna here are white, remainder pink purple, no

SUMMARY:
Checklist of Primula species collected in 1937, with notes on prior collection status and several specimen numbers. Localities mentioned include Chendebi and Tang Chu.

CONTENT:
x not collected in 1936
xx " " " before.
Primulas collected. 1937.

42. P. bracteosa.

1 P. Boothii.
P. erythrocarpa
P. flagellaris
P. sp. nov. Chendebi xx
5 P. strumosa elongata
P. Roylei.
P. macrophylla.
P. glabra.
P. geraniifolia xx
10 P. sp. nov. Tang Chu. xx
P. Hopeana
P. sapphirina x
P. tenella. xx
P. Winteri.
15 P. Boothii high alt. var.
P. pusilla. x
P. Stirtoniana x
P. obliqua. x
P. prenantha? xx
20 P. nivalis dwarf sp.
P. tenuiloba.
P. sikkimensis.
P. Menziesiana xx
P. bellidifolia xx
25 P. atrodentata
P. Griffithii sp. hancini
P. vernicosa.
P. pudibunda 3370
P. sikkimensis var. 3353. xx
30 P. sp. nov. 3366 hancini xx
P. " " 3367 xx
P. " " 3383. xx
P. umbratilis white 3384 xx
P. " blue 3394 xx
35 P. capitata.
P. soldanelloides. x
P. muscoides.
P. obtusifolia Caveana xx
P. Walshii 3413 concinna xx
40 P. Caveana 3410 xx
P. uniflora 3438. x
P. involucrata 3226. x

SUMMARY:
Page lists Primula taxa with collection numbers and notes on abundance, habitat, flowering/fruiting status, and seed or root collections. Mentions very late flowering in some cases and specific quantities. One entry records a collection at Chendebi Sovo.

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80 19395 P. Hopeana } These two are everywhere mixed up, one presumably
19396 P. Hopeana } are smaller, & here larger. Probably best to drop P.
19416 P. capitata. Almost always in dwarf juniper.
19420 P. soldanelloides Grows beside P. sapphirina & close to tenuiloba. Same alt. as Caveana
19423 P. macrophylla v. macrocarpa. Never seen so many as here before. There are several
85 19447 P. geraniifolia Common again here.
19461 P. capitata v crispata. 39.
19464 P. sin. v Hopeana. An with red tube, but mixed up with more which
19469 P. pusilla. Very fine here & bigger than seen elsewhere.
19574 P. flagellaris 40 at Chendebi Sovo.
90 19606 P. elongata fruiting spec. No seed yet.
19610 P. Pet? No flowers.
19656 P. capitata v crispata Very late flowering. Barely one yet, even at low
19684 P. umbratilis. In full flower very late, but this was on a cliff in a
19712 P. macrophylla v. macrocarpa. Seed specimen. Seed barely yet ripe.
95 19746 P. reticulata Seed - - - - - - -
19747 P. elongata. Seed ok.
19749 P. yargongensis. Mostly red, some white. Common. Still many in flower.
19750 P. macrophylla Seed spec.
19757 P. strumosa = 19204. Seed spec. from same spot.

100. 19766 P. Caveana. Roots taken.
     19777 P. Jonarduni. Roots taken. Seed spec.
     19781 P. atrodentata high alt. " "
     19785 P. sapphirina Seed spec.
     19788 P. capitata v crispata.
     105 19791 P. flaccida. Seed spec.
     19796 P. geraniifolia " "