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SUMMARY:
Page lists plant collections with specimen numbers from Takar La on 15 Aug and additional Gentiana records from Sur La in the Phari-Kyirong-da area in 1933. Mentions Ludlow and Sherriff.

CONTENT:
aka to Ludlow & Sherriff.
Phari-Kyirong-da in 1933

Takar La 15 Aug
Swertia handelii sp. nov. 2062
Gen. namlaensis 2063, 2064
otophoroides 2073
taylori 2074
Cyananthus lobatus 2084
Prim. sikkimensis 2065, 2077, 2078
tsariensis 2067, 2081
odontica sp. nov. 2068
glabra 2070
ioessa 2071
cawdoriana 2072
ioessa subpinnatifida 2075

Sur La
Gentiana
G. rubicunda v.
parviflora 2050
tubiflora 2051
filistyla v.
parviflora 2052
infelix 2053
namlaensis 2054
tsarongensis 2055
przewalskii 2056
taylori sp. nov. 2057

SUMMARY:
In Phobjikha, the diarist notes lingering snow on Dungshigang, plans to travel around the 15th, and clarifies that the map’s ‘Sawa La’ likely refers to Lawie La. They record sightings of blood pheasants and quail, praise bread made by Pritiman, note good wireless reception, report heavy overnight rain, and mention Tsongpen Tienduk going north on the 16th May halt day.

CONTENT:
today about taking me on, but I see I won't get far yet. Snow is very much on Dungshigang still, but we plan to go as far as we can on 15th and the following days. I have been asking the names of some of the many villages here. Phobjikha is a District. There are many villages on both sides of the valley. They are approximately as opposite. The main valley leads down at approximately 230°M. The 'Sawa La' of the map must be the Lawie La, but no name Sawa or Sawajohn is known.

Blood Pheasant
We saw a few blood pheasants on the peak today. I have asked many people whether they have ever seen blood pheasant eggs, but no one I have asked has seen any. They have seen day old chicks, as I have, but no sign of egg shells even. There are a lot

Quail
of quail here in the green wheat crops. Pritiman has at last made good bread, out of local wheat which I much prefer to the white fine ground flour I brought. The wireless is doing very well indeed here tonight, and I have it on much more than I had intended to.

Phobjikha
16th May. Halt. Phobjikha Rained hard last night: fine this morning up to 3.0pm, when rain came on pretty heavily. Tsongpen Tienduk went out north of where we were yesterday,

SUMMARY:
Halt at Phobsikha with rain, camp preparations, purchase of a sheep, and plant collecting including Rhododendron lanatum and a Prunus tree; a rhododendron differing from Rhod. thomsonii is noted (No. 3066). The author went east with Puitso through Abies forest and along a ridge, and the next day marched about 3.5 miles to Chapepusa.

CONTENT:
R. lanatum 3063
Lilium nanum 3065
but only came across one rhododendron - R. lanatum 3063.
They also brought back shooting bulbs of Nomocharis nana.
I went East with Puitso through Abies forest first then
up a narrow ridge with mostly rhododendron. All we found
Prunus rufa 3064 was R. lanatum, & a Prunus tree.

17th May. Halt. Phobsikha. Rained most of yesterday evening &
a good deal of the night. Fine this morning, but clouded over
very unsettled. Stayed in camp & got things ready for
tomorrow. Bought a sheep for 33 tankhas, did some developing,
& repacked all boxes, so as only to have to take one up
the hill with me. The rate offered here is only 8 tankhas, no
one ever having exchanged before: neither has anyone ever
sold a sheep, for which they at first wanted Rs 9/-. I
found a rhododendron today which appears to differ from Rhod.
thomsonii, although growing with the latter. The calyx is small &
R. thomsonii var candelabrum 3066 (Distinct)
the pedicels glandular (No 3066).

18th May. Chapepusa 3 1/2 miles. BP. 189.6° Temp. 50° Time 1

SUMMARY:
The diarist hurried to a ridge for clear morning views of the Himalayas and Chomolhari before clouds closed in. A long-delayed mail finally arrived from Sarbhang via Nabji and Chendebi, and later Tsouypen found a Rhododendron (Rhod. glaucum 3095) nearby, possibly new to Bhutan; the surroundings near Phobsikha are described with yaks and dry, open slopes.

CONTENT:
indeed, did everything. I nearly bust myself running up to the ridge with my camera to catch the Himalayas before they were covered in clouds. Chomolhari was again clear till about 6:00 am, but it was much clearer away to the East, I could see snow peaks for miles, really a grand sight. But the clouds came up awfully quickly. On the way up to the ridge I met two men with a mail at last. It had taken since the 7th to reach us from Sarbhang, all the delay being between Nabji and Chendebi. It was naturally a small mail, and only had 6 or 8 letters and 5 'Statesman'. But it was very nice to get news from home and from Kashmir, though no letter from Ludlow. We took a long route through the jungle down here, but saw nothing new at all, until nearly here, when Tsouypen found one bush of a pretty little Rhododendron, which I make to be Rhod. glaucum 3095, mentioned as coming from Sikkim, so perhaps it is new to Bhutan. This place is rather pretty, it is situated on the same ridge as the one we came up onto from Phobsikha, but much further down. There are some yaks here, and a lot of the hillside is open grassy slopes. There is a little cultivation too, but the hillside is still very dry.

24th May in Phobsikha. 3 miles. B.P. Temp. Time

SUMMARY:
Entries describe travel from Phobsikha toward Lao La with mostly fine weather, strong valley winds, and plant collecting, including Primula boothii in seed and other alpine flora. Plans are made to head toward wet Ridang, and route notes describe the path toward Gangte Gompa across a swampy valley with measurements taken at Lao La.

CONTENT:
31st May. Phobsikha ( ) 8½ miles.

It was fine nearly all yesterday; even in the evening there were only a few short showers. Nearly fine today. We came across a lot of Primula Boothii(?) 3162 on the way, in seed, so collected & I have packed in a bottle with CO2. Otherwise nothing seen.

1st June. Halt. Fine. This is a very windy valley, all day from 7.0 am onwards, wind blows very strongly up the valley. The hills are still very dry here. Pinbo & I went up to the W of camp, but saw little. There was a lot of Bryocarpum himalaicum whose flower is now practically over. Rhod Keysii & cinnabarinum & triflorum all very common. As Ridang is always a very wet place, we are going off in that direction tomorrow, but not as low as Ridang itself.

2nd June. LAO LA. 7 miles BP. 1928 Temp. 57° Time 2.0 pm Ht.

Rained hard yesterday evening. Fine all day today. Path leaves the junction of the two main streams of Phobsikha & lies at a bearing of 330° M. direct to Gangte Gompa, which can be seen on top of a round pine clad hill at the head of the valley. The middle of the broad open valley is nearly all swamp & the path bad. At m 2½ a valley enters from the north, & at its junction, is a village called