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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...

SUMMARY:
At Pangchen the diarist and Ludlow were confined to bed with fever and severe sore throats for several days, while Danong searched nearby with limited success. Several plants are noted, including Clematis montana and various Rhododendron and Primula species, amid intermittent heavy rain. By 3 April they felt weak but ready to move on.

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Pangchen 31 March. Clematis montana 1250. Rhod. edgeworthii 1251
Rhod. epapillatum 1252

L.D. ill at
Pangchen

1st April. Halt. Ludlow and I have spent the last three days
in bed with some kind of a fever and a most awful throat.
I have no idea what it was or why we got it. The
throat has by no means gone yet, but fever nearly has.
Danong has searched round about, but has not found
anything much. Prim. boothii is pretty common in
suitable places, and P. erythrocarpa also. One nice Rhododendron
(Rhod. epapillatum) was found, but only one flower out, 1252. There has
been quite heavy rain on and off these last three days, with
always bright intervals. Probably our throats have
been much the same as Danong and Tsongpen had. Whatever
they are, they are most extremely unpleasant, and I hope we
are both finished with them now.

P. gracilipes
P. erythrocarpa
Rhod. epapillatum
laniflorum 1259
Rhod. grande 1258
Rhod. epapillatum 1260
" arboreum 1261
" triflorum 1262

3rd April. Pangchen. We both feel as if we could
make a move tomorrow though very weak. When walking
we have the feeling of being drunk, but I suppose that is
only weakness. There has not been much to do here,
and I will be glad to get on again where I feel there
will be more flowers. The monsoon almost seems to have
arrived already. It has rained on and off every day we have

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SUMMARY:
Page lists Kodachrome, Dufaycolor, and black‑and‑white images documenting rhododendrons, primulas, iris, styrax, river and bridge scenes, and views of Lhuntse Dzong across late April and May. Locations include Deungchung, Kuru Chu (and its bridge at Dunkhar), Shamshing, Lhuntse Dzong, and Tang, with a note of items sent on 19/5 to Tang.

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Kodachrome G.S. 8
Rhod. lindleyi at Deungchung. 28/29/4
Coolies at Mani near Mashina 8/5
Crossing bridge over Kuru Chu 10/5
Iris decora Shamshing 12/5
Lhuntse Dzong. 14/5
Orchid by stream. 18870 15/5
Rhod. rhabdotum 18877 17/5
Sent 19/5 Tang.

Dufaycolor 5
1 River at camp. Deungchung. 1/5
2 Rhod. edgeworthii at .. 18777 2/5.
3 Prim. mollis. 18806. 2/5.
moved 4 Primula No 18846 9/5
5 } Rhod. rhabdotum .18877 17/5
6 }

B & W. 4.
1 Rhod. edgeworthii at camp. Deungchung 1/5
2 Blank.
3 Primula mollis 18806 2/5.
4 Primula mollis 18816 4/5
5 From Kuru Chu bridge at Dunkhar to North. 8/5.
6 Primula cochlearea 18846 & 18847 9/5
7 Styrax hookeri. Shamshing. 13/5.
8 Lhuntse Dzong. 14/5.
9 Rhod. rhabdotum 17/5.
10 Rhod. primulaeflorum? 18887 glaucum. 18/5
11 Prim. roylei 18895 18/5 red filter.
12 Prim. elongata 18896 18/5