umpa,
Daphne papyracae, Peperomia quadrifolium, Spiraea bella, Viola,
Ophiopogon linearifol., Hypericum, Smilax, Elaeagnus, Conaria, Lonicera
villosa, Epilobium sericeum, a common plant in all watery places,
Cardamina Swertia, Viburnum microphyllum. Rhododendrum arborea and
minor, Leucas ciliata, Thistles, Pteris aquilina, Neckerae, Osbeckia
capitata of Churra, Oaks, Catharinea, Xyris, Gordonia, Fragaria,
Potentilla two, Festucoidea, Cupressus pendula.

The greatest acquisitions were a beautiful pink farinaceous ascapous
Primula, and a new genus of Hamamelideae. This plant I have long known,
and called _Betula corylifolia_, as I had only seen it in fruit, and
not examined it; it is found on the Khasya hills at elevations of between
4,000 and 6,000 feet. It will be worth dedicating it to some
distinguished geologist, thereby associating his name with that of
Bucklandia and Sedgwickii.

No fly-fishing is to be had in this stream, nor indeed in any at such
elevations. The Adoee is found, but always keeps at the bottom, the
structure of its mouth pointing out its grovelling habits. The Bookhar
does not, I think, ascend more than 2,500 feet. Water-ouzels,
white-fronted Sylvia occur. Observed for the first time the religious
vertical revolving cylinders, these revolve by the action of water, which
runs on the cogs of the wheel by means of hollowed out trunks of trees.
Flour mills are common here, the grindstone revolves on another by means
of vertical spokes, which are set in motion by a horizontal wheel, and
moved by a stream let on it in the same way.

Funaria heygrometrina abounds in the larch wood here.

This is a very cold place, although 550 feet below Phoollong: it is much
colder than that place: thermometer at 7 A.M. 34 degrees.

Snow still remains on the height around; heavy snow on the lofty ridge to
the north; strong south-east winds prevail here.

[Tassgong from the Koollong: p241.jpg]

_February 12th_.--Tassyassy, which is also called Tassangsee, is a
small place apparently consisting of one large house, belonging to the
Soobah, and some religious edifices, the other houses belonging to it are
scattered about among the adjoining cultivation. The Soobah we have just
learnt is absent at Tongsa, so we have no opportunity of comparing his
rank with that of the Tassgong man. His house is however, much larger;
it is situated on a promontory formed by the debouching of a considerable
sized torrent into