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Evidentiary scope
The label gives a place, an altitude of 10,000 feet, a date, a number and the English word Hemp. It does not say whether the plant was sown, tended, volunteer or wild. It records no use beyond that one word. The accession is classified Other. It documents Cannabis in the Chumbi Valley at about 3,048 m in September 1912, level with Koelz 692 (1930) among the accessions held here. It establishes nothing about a stand or a landrace. No conservation priority is assigned.
Georeferencing
RBGE and GBIF give the country as India and no locality at all. The label's Lingmuthang is in the Chumbi Valley, which is Tibetan, so this accession is filed under China.
The reading rests on the collector's own labels of the same season. Kew holds Primula smithiana as K006559437, R. Lepcha 64 of August 1912, whose label reads Lingmuthang, Chumbi Valley, East Himalaya (GBIF 5843846221). Harvard holds Pedicularis longiflora var. tubiformis as barcode 02644635, R. Lepcha 51 of 1912, whose label reads Lingmuthang, above Chumbi (GBIF 5886431835). Those numbers sit either side of this sheet's 57. The Natural History Museum places its own Lingmathang, Chumbi sheets of 1942 and 1943 in Xizang, China.
The Chumbi Valley is in the southern Tibet Autonomous Region of China, between Bhutan on the east and Sikkim on the west. Its floor lies at about 9,500 feet (Encyclopaedia Britannica). The Pitt Rivers Museum's Tibet album carries a 1936 photograph captioned Lingmathang, Chumbi Valley (Tibet Album BMR.86.1.66.3). The infobox therefore gives country China, province Tibet and locality Lingmuthang, with the label's altitude converted to metres. No district is asserted: the county the valley falls in was not established from a source checked here. No coordinate is asserted: the valley is about 30 km long and the label names no stage of it.
A second reading is possible, that the name belongs to a Sikkimese place of similar sound. Nothing found supports it. The two sibling labels are explicit, so this accession follows them.
Editorial treatment
The label spells the collector Rohmoo Lepcha; RBGE's catalogue spells him Lepcha, Rhomoo and RBGE's own biographical note uses Rhomoo. The title and the collector field follow the label, as the naming convention requires. The name is kept whole instead of being split into a surname and initials, as Keshava Nand 312 (1890) is.
No accession here has been filed under China before this one, so Browse by country/China is created with it. The country grid on Browse by country builds itself from the accessions and needs no edit.
The altitude is written 10.000 on the label, with a full stop as the thousands separator. It is read as 10,000 feet, which is 3,048 m and consistent with the valley's floor at about 9,500 feet.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 04:44, 18 September 2026 (+07)