560 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
the flowers having exactly the same structure. The fruit, - 
however, in place of being a drupe, is a dry capsule. 
Early on the morning of the third day we proceeded to 
investigate a high range of hills immediately opposite the 
Bungalow, and about two miles distant from it. We 
rode along the more level part, so as to be fresh for 
the steeper portion. In the moist flats grows a very pretty 
little Gentian (G. abscondita, Zenk.), with bright blue flowers; 
while on the higher and dryer fields Hypericum Mysorense, 
a shrub from four to six feet high, with large golden blossoms, 
is seen in the greatest plenty. In a wood, by the margin of 
which we passed, and into which we occasionally dipped, we 
found a Pygeum in fruit, Symplocos obtusa, several kinds of 
Lauracee, and Myrtacee. In open parts at a greater eleva- 
tion several species of Crotalaria, and Osbeckia Gardne- 
riana, were in full bloom. After scrambling up a very 
steep ascent, and when near the summit, we visited the 
residence of a Bear, but did not find him at home. 
This was a hollow, under a projecting ledge of rock, - 
and judging from certain appearances, he had not been long 
gone. The selection of this spot for his den showed great 
wisdom ; for not only was it well protected from the prevail- 
ing Winds during the season of the rains, but in case of danger 
he had two outlets of escape. One of these, leading toa higher — 
part of the mountain, was a very excellent ladder, formed of — 
the gnarled stem of a large Rhododendron, the dense top of 
which serves besides as a verandah to the portico. The 
steps are so much worn that they seem to have been used for _ 
a long period by the progenitors of the present possessor. 
In clefts of the rock here, grew a pretty little Campanula, 
not uncommon in similar situations all over the hills. - 
Ligustrum Perottetii was very common by the sides üt 
mountain streams, as also a species of Eleagnus. In a . 
flat marshy tract, behind the summit of this range, - 
we found an Eriocaulon, Valeriana Brunoniana, and the - 
curious Hedyotis verticillaris; while the dryer fields around 
