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hedgehog, as it is hollow and inserted by an acute 

 root. I should be triad to know if this be the case 

 with the Ovis or Capra Amnion. The other may 

 perhaps be the Capra caucasia. The length of 

 my stay in Nepal is very uncertain. Whenever I 

 am able, I intend returning to England, and shall 

 have amusement enough for my old age in putting 

 my papers into some order. At present I write my 

 descriptions at full length, but I intend afterwards 

 to make out a F/ora Indica with short characters 

 of the species, as much as possible resembling those 

 Jussieu gives of genera as I am able. 



In Mysoor I found another species of the Vatica, 

 and plenty of the Materia, which is one of the most 

 ornamental trees I have ever seen. The Dim Bunga 

 may be a Sonneratia, but this must be determined 

 by the fruit. The unripe fruit did not seem in- 

 clined to become pulpy, but rather to be capsular : 

 at any rate it is quite different from the Sonneratia 

 acida, with which I am as well acquainted as with 

 oats. 



The plants I proposed calling Hopea are found 

 in the woods of Chittagong and Tippera. Two of 

 them produce an oil of turpentine, or at least one 

 analogous to it, and which is called wood-oil by the 

 English of Bengal. The two last species are valu- 

 able timber trees. 



Roxburgh has since called another genus after 

 Hope : its fruit is the same almost exactly with 

 that I have now mentioned, but the stamina are 

 definite. He found one species in a garden at 

 Calcutta with ten filaments, alternately simple and 



