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artificial piece of pumice-stone made of sand and lac. A third 

 coat, consisting of bone-charcoal worked up with melanorrhcea oil 

 is now laid on, and forms the ground of the whole pattern. The 

 box is again placed in the vault, where it remains sufficiently 

 long to thoroughly dry. Now commences the designing of the 

 pattern, which is performed entirely with a style. The whole of 

 the black ground is removed, except such portion as is intended 

 to form part of the design. This is either accomplished on the 

 lathe or by the hand alone, according to the figure to be described. 

 The next colour of the pattern, which is composed of a Chinese 

 body colour and melanorrhcea oil, is now laid on, and the box re- 

 placed in the vault for a fortnight or more, when a similar procses 

 is followed, and the whole of the last coating removed but that 

 next in the design, and so on until the whole pattern is completed, 

 when the box is put on a lathe, and the colours made to blend by 

 a process of pumice-stoning, the final polish being given with a 

 little oil and paddy-husk. Thus it will be seen that, with the 

 exception of the artificial pumice-stone, lac in no form is used in 

 the manufacture of these boxes. The bond fide lacquer-ware boxes 

 for which Sind is so celebrated are as different from the ware here 

 described as is possible for two articles to be. 



42. The following is a list of plants observed between Zaloon 



and Thayetmyo: Lomaria scandents, 

 Plants, scandentslirubs, and Epi- Crinoid gigantcum, Soneratia apetala, 



phytic Orclnde between Zaloon A %-> ° ^ /. *77, ' 



and Thayetmyo. Areca, Jbutea, Cyrwnietra acacisides, 



Soneralia acida, Stravadium Calamus, 

 Exccecaria, Acrostichum aureum, Acanthus ilicifolius, Bombax, Zizyphus 

 jujuba, Erythrina indica, Lagerstrcemia grandiflora, Ficus, Urticea 

 fructibus, Bignonia suberosa, and Bignonia crispa, Acacia catechu, 

 Acacia farnesiana, Aroideum Hypercicum, Herpestris, Rumex, Dentella, 

 Bauhinia, Crotalaria, Aristolochia, Dioscorea, Hedyotis, also a large 

 variety of scandent shrubs, including Ipomceas, Thunbergias, and 

 Clerodendrons, varieties of grasses, including bamboos, also Epiphytic 

 Orchidece. 



43. The trees cultivated for their fruit were mango, plantain, cus- 

 Fruit trees. tard-apple (which thrives best in the 



vicinity of Prome), lime, orange, pap- 

 aya, pomegranate, bullock's-heart, and tamarind, which last seems 

 to thrive better as we progress north of Thayetmyo and up to 

 List of trees. Mandalay. The following trees were 



also noted : Dodonoea Burmanniana, 

 Euphorbia, Carissa, Prionitis, Olax mimosa, Ximenia, Capparis pandu- 

 rata, Gymnema, Calotropis, Mudar, Borassus, Crotalaria, Guilandina, 

 Jasminioides, and Tectona ternifolia. 



