562 BOTANICAL INFORMATION; 
shape of what may be called in geological language, recent 
deposits, that a large herd of Elephants had. gone over the 
same ground only a short time before. Notwithstanding the 
rain and the cold, we diverged a considerable way from the 
road to visit the only station which Dr. Wight knows for Hy- 
pericum Hookerianum, and, even there, only one patch was £g 
be seen about twenty yardssquare. Oddly enough too, thisis — | 
situated in the centre of a flat swamp about half a mile in 
circumference. To this spot, for what reason I know not, 
the European residents have given the name of * New Eng- 
land.’ We found the Hypericum in fine flower, it is a 
very handsome species. Some way beyond this, we came — 
upon one of the most remarkable pieces of natural scenery - 
which is to be met with on the hills, which is called the | 
“Devis Gap; but whether this name commemorates his | 
arrival on the hills, or his exit from them, no one now 2 
seems to- know; though the probability is that it was 
not the latter. It is an immense gap, upwards of 150 feet - 
wide, in the centre of a high hill, and has evidently been 
caused by the rending asunder of the latter. The road 3 
passes very close to it; and forms at its close, a deep wild- — 
wooded ravine, HR terminating in a broad valley 
which sweeps down into Malabar: the view from it is mag- - 
nificent indeed. 
Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, we 
added considerably to our botanical stores. Among other plants — : 
may be mentioned a Pittosporum, a new Osbeckia, an Olea, — 
a large shrubby Smithia, two beautiful species of Sonerila, 
a Gnidia, different from that which grows on the Eastern - 
slopes, an undescribed Plectranthus, a new Pogostemon, 9 — 
new Utricularia, and Clematis Munroana. ! 
Two days. were devoted to short rambles among the 
mountains in the, vicinity of the bungalow, situated 
in a wild, but. beautiful. spot, a little below the top of 
the pass. The commonest trees in the woods at this 
elevation, are a new species of Ilex, and a new gus 
of the natural order Olacinee, which will be published #8 
