554 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
handsome species of Aerides (A. Lindleyana, Wight MSS.) 
sparingly in flower. A few specimens were also obtained of 
the beautiful Lysimachia Leschenaultii. Dr. Wight informs 
me that many curious herbaceous plants grow on the rocks 
here in the months of August and September, but of 
which almost no traces were now to be observed. One of 
these is a large-flowered Lily, very much resembling Wallich's 
Lilium longiflorum. 
In the jungles, at the foot of the falls, vegetation was ina 
more active state. Here we collected specimens of Photinia 
Notoniana, Loranthus amplexifolius, Viscum ramosissimum, 
Sonerila speciosa, Jasminum erectiflorum, a delicate little 
species of Monochilus, an undescribed Vanda, Barleria 
involucrata, Passiflora Leschenaultii, and numerous other 
plants which were mostly new to me. One of the most 
curious of them all was a species of the Balanophore, perhaps 
the same as Dr. Arnott has described under the name of 
Langsdorffia Indica, but which has now been reduced to the 
genus Cynopsole. In a dark part of the forest, I found a 
single specimen of Clathrus cancellatus, one of the most 
beautiful, at the same time that itis one of the most fetid 
of fungi. I have also met with it two or three times in the | 
mountain forests of the Central Province of Ceylon. About 
a quarter of a mile below the fall, we arrived at a large = 
Mulberry plantation, belonging to a gentleman who is 
endeavouring to rear the silk-worm on a large scale. So 
far as he has yet gone, the results are favourable. It being 
now pretty late in the afternoon, and our rambles having 
rather tended to increase our appetites, we halted on- 
a large flat rock in the middle of the stream to take 
some refreshment. The situation was most beautiful; and 
we were surrounded in all directions by botanical treasures, 
as you will be able to judge from the following enumeration — 
of a few of them. The trees were a species of Monocera, | 
Photinia Lindleyana, Agapetes arborea, Viburnum acuminatum, 
Turpinia Nepalensis, and a large species of Cinnamomum. The 
