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British India, and make a list of every species common "botli to 

 Sikkim and Kliasia, that will give you very nearly what I have 

 noted here. I have two (or three) species of Spiradidisj Carle" 

 mannia^ and two of Cqffea. Also I have three species of one 

 marked genns near JSIyrioneuron (this may be new, but I think 

 not). There is one Lucidia plentiful, I imagine the Khasi (not 

 the Sikkim) species. 



In the Nambre swamp forest I could not get at the trees. 

 Mucuna^ Fueraria^ Argyreia abound. There is one gigantic 

 climber with large racemes of dark red flowers (a Leguminosad) 

 new to me. Leguminosa) are not strongly represented near Ko- 

 hima. I have one that I suppose new, viz. of Diimasia^ which 

 " replaces " the species common in Sikkim. There is also in the 

 Nambre forest, and up to 1500 feet alt., the curious small-flowered 

 ThlacUantlia^ which you got in Khasia; but I could not get one 

 female plant either in flower or fruit; so the problem remains 

 where you left it. 



It is rather too late in the reason to collect Cyrtandracese, but 

 there are here all the species common to Sikkim and Khasia. 

 O^^sclynanthus I have seen three species. In Lysionoftis there 

 is. the common X. ternifoUa^ and there is also a bushy Lysionotus^ 

 five to six feet, hairy and with very slender peduncles: this I 

 think is the imperfectly known Lysioiiotiis Griffittdi^ of wliich 

 Griflith collected some fruiting fragments in Upper zVssam. In 

 Chirita there is only in flower Ch. acuminata^ H. Br., and Ch, 

 jmmila^ D. Don. Of Didymocarpiis I have only one in fruit ; it 

 is not any Khasi species. There are the usual Rhyncoylossum and 

 lihyncotechum. Then I have one or two scrapsinfruit of a genus 

 (somewhere near Staurardhera) which Griffith got in Upper 

 Assam. 



In Gentianacea^, I have collected three Oj^Tielias, two Exacums, 



one CraicfurJia. 



I have collected no Primulad; I doubt there being many in 

 thet;e jungles at any season. Ardisia^ witli its small allied genera, 

 is common here with several species; also Mtesa, Myrsine, Embelia, 

 and one very large Choripelalum. 



Begonias very plentiful, many Sikkim species ; I have seen 

 none that I suppose new. 



Araliads numerous. 



Acanthads not numerous (except StrohilanOies) ; there is Thun- 

 hcrgia coccinea^ AValL, common. Also Codonocanthus. 



