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SUMMARY:
Notes describe intense heat in lowland Bhutan and a fine bridge over the Kuru Chu, followed by return to camp at Lhuntse Dzong. Yundru requests medicine for syphilis, mentioning prior injections by Kapo. The Tinnymu Bridge is described in detail, with no notable flowers observed.

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places, the lowest part of Bhutan. They won't ask questions, perhaps because they know they won't get a very good answer. But it can't be helped, one must fill in these two days as best we can. The Dzong here is very well worth looking at, I should say old. There is a fine bridge over the Kuru Chu about 1 mile downstream - one of the finest I've seen in Bhutan, a bit bigger than the Trashigangsi Chu bridge by a good bit. I would certainly not like to live down here. It is very hot indeed. But the Bhutanese say there is no fever. Yundru, our new slave, has just come to ask for medicine for syphilis. I'm sorry he has that, though nearly all seem to have some kind of V.D. He tells me Kapo injected him three times a year ago, but with no result. He says it was done one in each shoulder or in the vein of the forearm, and that it hurts a great deal. I don't wonder.

14th May. Lhuntse Dzong. Back again here, but this time camped in a nice quiet place beneath some cypresses above the Dzong, rather shut in, but pleasant. Ludlow and I must have been here in 1933. We were in by 8:30 this morning. Very wet last night, and cloudy this morning, but just fine. I had a very disturbed night, with water fleas in my pyjamas which I couldn't catch. They come in off the coolies' clothes, when he is carrying the bedding, or so I imagine. The Tinnymu Bridge is a fine one, 42 yards from built up pier to pier, with at each end 4 cantilevers. It is quite recently built, only 6-7 years ago, the last one having been washed away in a flood. Nothing interesting in the flower line.

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Brief notes from Liang dated April 29 listing plant specimens and taxonomic annotations, including Trillium tschonoskii (1382) and several entries marked as new species or varieties. Specimen numbers 1382–1392 are referenced.

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Liang April 29.
Trillium tschonoskii 1382.

See Gen. Rho. fulvum 1383 1384
See Rep. to Board. hodgsonii 1385
See Gen. sp. nov. pudorosum 1386
See Gen. sp. nov. erosum 1387
See new lanatum var. luciferum 1389
sp. nov. sherriffii 1390 sp. nov.
sp. nov. populare 1391
See Gen. vellereum 1392

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Brief note indicating travel from Lidro to Tsona and mention of seeds of Paraquilegia.

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Lidro to Tsona
seeds of Paraquilegia

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Describes the route from the Lilung Chu camp to a camp up the Lo La Chu via fir forest, a cliff junction at Singo Samba, and difficult plank bridges, with boggy open areas suitable for camping. Notes several Primula species and other plants in the Lo La Chu valley, with seeds collected for some, and mentions Primula Roylei at about 11,000 ft not collected.

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calderiana
Primula Roylei just in flower, common, 11,000 ft. (Not collected).

Camp in Lilung Chu to Camp up Lo La Chu. Keep to the L bank of the Lilung Chu, an easy path through fir forest, gradually opening out a little to m 3, where there is a big cliff on the R hand side of the path, where the valley from the Lo La enters the R. bank at a bearing of 307°. This is Singo Samba, no houses or cultivation. The Lilung (Langong) Chu turns a little W, coming from a bearing of 205°. The Lilung Chu is crossed by a very bad plank cantilever bridge a little above the junction, and the Lo La Chu is crossed just above too. Path climbs a good deal to start with, gradually easing off, keeping to the R. bank. About m 6 some open spaces are met and camp may be pitched in any of these, though they are rather boggy.

Primula prenantha common in Lo La Chu valley. } not in flower. SEED taken. No. S.H. /38.
" atrodentata .. .. .. .. .. }
" glabra just coming into flower.

Pedicularis sp. (12-15") SEED taken. S.H. /38
" sp (1-2") Bella? SEED taken S.H /38

Isopyrum sp. SEED taken S.H /38.

See July 1938.

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After leaving Nagu, a cook’s fire set a hollow willow ablaze at night, forcing tents to be moved. On 25 April at Lilung, the party began using new mule transport and collected several plants, including a clematis, a white Buddleia variant, and an apple/pear (Nyete) near Temshung east of Simbiteng; a local was asked to collect seed for Ludlow, and a cushion Androsace was noted.

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soon dressed. All that took up time and left Nagu at 1.0pm. Then on all was well but it was a long day. A slight hitch added to our troubles at night. The cook lit a fire under a big willow. The roots of it all caught fire suddenly there was a roar as flames shot out of the top of two large branches about 1 1/2' diam, some 10 feet up the tree. They were hollow & acted as chimneys, for there was a tearing wind blowing, the sight was quite a good one. Of course the tree was doomed, & fell about 1.0 am. Tents had to be moved because of this, but we did this when the thing started.

25 April. Lilung. Our first fine day, & a good day too as we set off with our new mule transport which came along very well indeed. We also found rather more flowers. There are not many but at least we saw some. A clematis (12404) is in flower in several places. I imagine they are all the same, usually white. But the one I took was bright madder pink & very pretty. Another colour variation taken was a pure white edition of the purple Buddleia (12401). The prettiest thing taken is an apple - or pear perhaps - No 12402 - which the locals call Nyete. It was growing at a village called Temshung, 1 m. to the E of Simbiteng. I saw it here also, close to the houses of Lilung, & have warned a local to collect seed for Ludlow. It is very fine, white, but pink in bud, & showing big trusses of about 20 flowers together. The only other find was the small cushion Androsace (Brachystelma?) which grows so commonly here & on the Potrang & Kongbo Nga Las. It is a joy to have mules which go well, & which will carry us for 11 days without any change at all. The muleteers also seem good men.