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patiens latifolia, and several species of Plectranthus and 
Pogostemon. We descended the pass a short way, which 
. leads into the Mysore country, but did not meet with much 
to interest us. There were some fine peeps into the low 
country, which is much more thickly wooded than that which 
lies between Madras and the Neelgherries. 
Our last excursion, occupying eight days, was the 
most productive of the whole. It was to the western 
slopes of the chain, or those which lead into the Malabar 
country. On our way thither we spent three days explor- 
ing the woods and mountains in the neighbourhood of 
a place called the Avalanche—from a great land-slip which 
has taken place on the side of a high hill, about sixteen 
miles from Ootacamund. Here, as usual, we were domiciled 
in the public Bungalow. The country through which we 
passed is very similar to that which leads to Pycarrah; but 
the hills at the Avalanche are far higher, and more rugged 
in their outline. 'The first day was spent on a high hill 
behind the Bungalow, where there are some well-wooded 
ravines. In these we met with Sonerila speciosa in fine 
flower; a third species of Cynopsole, much larger than the 
other two, the stems being nearly a foot in length, and 
the fructified part as large as one's fist; a new Zsonan- 
dra, Michelia Neelgherica, Gomphandra polymorpha, Blumea 
pterodonta, and a new Stylocoryne. By the sides of these 
jungles grew an undescribed Moonia, which Dr. Wight 
has dedicated to his friend Dr. Arnott, a species of Gynura, - 
and Senecio corymbosa. The open grassy parts of the hill 
yielded us Gerardia Sopubia, an Ophilia, Ranunculus cordatus, 
and Prunella vulgaris. On the succeeding day we explored 
a long densely wooded ravine, which runs up to the top 
of the same hill and found a very fœtid Mephitidia, a 
Cinnamomum, Hedera rostrata (Wight MSS.), and the new 
Symplocos, a few ferns and mosses, and a Rutaceous shrub, 
which, before we obtained the ripe fruit, we considered to 
belong to the Chilian genus Pitavia (anie Ruiz et Pav.), 
