|  Lloyd
Botanical Garden
Spread over on forty acres of land below the
busy market area is the Lloyd Botanical Garden. The garden is
named after William Lloyd, an old resident of Darjeeling and
the proprietor of Lloyd's Bank of Darjeeling, who donated the
land of the garden in 1877.
The garden, one of the most prestigious gardens
in the Himalayas, is divided into three sections. The upper
section contains the flora of Eastern-Himalayas, the lower part
has a collection of exotic species of many temperate countries,
while the middle portion contains a large verity of alpine flora
and a Orchiderium which contains more than 2500 species of plants
including some rare species of Himalayas.
 The
Garden, laid out under the supervision of Sir Gorge King the
then Superintendent of Royal Botanical Garden played an important
role in conservation of many orchids and medicinal plants which
were fast being extinct. Among the important specimen the Living
Fossil Tree (metaseqoia alvotostroboides) from China, Ginko
Biloba- a specimen from pre-historical times, strelitzia reginoe,
popularly known as 'bird of paradise', rare magnolias like m.
fuscata, m. lilliflora are found here.
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