BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 565 
present occupied with a survey of the Neelgherry mountains. 
We passed the night at Kotagherry, about fifteen miles 
distant from Ootacamund, and on the following morning 
rode down to a small Coffee plantation, belonging to Capt. 
Oughterlony's brother. There is no residence on the es- 
tate; but the Captain having sent his tent, we breakfasted 
in it. The Coffee plants do not grow so luxuriantly as 
in Ceylon, from the very obvious reason that the climate 
is too dry; the coffee produced here is, however, of very 
excellent quality, being highly flavoured. From all that I 
have seen of the Neelgherries, no part of the range seems so 
well adapted for the cultivation of this shrub, as the Western, 
or Malabar slopes, which exhibit all the capabilities of the 
richest Coffee districts in Ceylon. In the afternoon we rode 
down to the Bungalow at the foot of the hills, slept there, 
and next day reached Coimbatore. 
The following plants were added to our collection between 
Kotagherry and the plains :—Zmpatiens fruticosa, Monosis 
Wightiana, Lantana dubia, fine specimens of Lonicera Lesche- 
naultti and Viburnum acuminatum, an Ardisia, Buddleia 
discolor, Glossanthus Malabaricus, a new species of Phebe, 
a fine large tree, Schmidelia Rheedii, an undescribed Jasminum, 
Semecarpus Anacardium, an Olea, the beautiful blue-flowered 
Thunbergia-like Meyenia Hawtayneana, &c., &c. The lower 
part of the Kotagherry pass is steep, and the road very bad, 
but the view from that part of it, where the low country first 
comes in sight, is exceedingly fine, and as a whole put me O — 
very much in mind of the rich plains which are overlooked 
by the Malvern hills. 
You will be glad to learn that Dr. Wight has the third part 
of his ‘ Icones’ in the press, which with some succeeding ones, 
is to be principally devoted to the productions of the Neel- 
gherries. A selection from these, coloured, he is also pub- 
lishing under the name of “ Neelgherry Plants.” Of this 
= Work there will only be 100 copies, to consist of four or - 
five parts of 50 plates each. At present he has two 
. mative artists and a plant-solientor constantly. employed, 
