Some Photographs From Dr. J. F. Rock
In the April Quarterly Bulletin of the Society there appeared a group of photographs from Dr. Rock that had been sent to the late president of the Society C. I. Sersanous. The following are the remainder of that rare original group as received by the Society. - Editor
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Fig. 35. The Glacier Gorge Sa-la-lo-gkr.
Elevation 11,500 feet. The home of R. traillianum and R. cuneatum . June 1922, Northwest Yunnan. Rock photo |
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Fig. 36.
Rhododendron tapetiforme
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Flowers purplish blue. R. 9248 on Pai-ma-Shan northwest Yunnan, elevation 15,800 feet. June 1923. Rock photo |
Fig. 37.
R. fastigiatum
and
haematodes
on the summit of the Ts'ang Shan range west of Ta-li, Western Yunnan, April 1922. Rock photo |
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Fig. 38. Lion mountain and the Lu-lu lake of
of Yungning as seen from the island of Ryoropu. On the summit of the limestone mountains grows Rhododendron Roxieanum to the exclusion of any other rhododendrons; Northwest Yunnan, 1931. Elevation of the summit of Lion Mountain called Seng-ge kar-mo by the natives is 13,000 feet. Rock photo |
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Fig. 39. The Li-la or Hsi Pass, Mekong
Salween divide. Here grows R. repens . Elevation 14,500 feet. September, 1923 Rock photo |
Fig. 40.
R. delavayi
growing on Ta-yin-Shan,
Southwestern Yunnan, china, elevation 8,000 feet. In the distance the Shwelli-Salwin, January 1923. Rock photo |