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crops grown on Popa are Indian corn, plantains, sweet potatoes, 

 custard apples, guavas, rice and sesamum, the two last chiefly on 

 Popamyo plateau, on which the village of the same name is situated 

 at between 2,000 and 3,000 feet altitude, the descent to the plains 

 from this point being steep and precipitous. 



Fagan, an ancient ruined City, the Capital of the Burmese 

 Empire, about the j^ears 750-1280 A.D. Situated at 21° 10' North 

 by 94° 53' East on the left bank of the Irrawady, towards the South- 

 West of the Myingyan District. The most noticeable feature is 

 the thousands of Temples and Pagodas, most of which are in ruins, 

 and which afford shelter for countless numbers of Bats. It is 

 situated in one of the driest and most barren parts of the dry belt. 

 The chief vegetation is low prickly scrub cactus and milk bush, 

 with a few 'Tamarinds and Acacias dotted here and there. The 

 district is said to be more dry and arid than formerly, owing to its 

 denudation of trees. The countr}?- round is almost flat, with the 

 exception of the Tay windaing range of hills, which rise about 1 

 miles inland and stretch in a south-easterly direction, forming a 

 short, narrow line of rocky peaks, some of which rise to a 

 height of over 1,000 feet. The ground is very poor, the chief 

 crops gro^^'n locally being early sesamum, ground-nuts, pulse and 

 jo war. 



The Collection contains 1,090 specimens, but of these, 32, contri- 

 buted hj local Members of the Societj?-, are from the Shan States, 

 or other areas beyond the scope of this Report, and I have dealt 

 with them in an appendix. 'The remaining 1,059 specimens belong 

 to. 53 species in 38 Genera. 



The most notable fact in connection with the Collection is the 

 discoverjr of the two new species, viz., Millardia kathleenii; , Thos., 

 and Lec/gadilla sJiortridgei, 'Thos. So far as I am aware neither 

 of these Genera have before been found East of Assam. Besides 

 these there are more than 20 forms whose names appear for the first 

 time in the records of the Siirvey. 



Bahifa gigantea was described from Assam. The National 

 Collection contains specimens from Siam, and even as fai* south as 

 Hainan, and quite recently has received specimens from Myitkyina 

 (Capt. A. W. Kemmis, 1908), Katha (Col. C. E. Nichol, 1911,) 

 Madaj^a Forest, 55 miles N. of Mandalay (C. S. Barton, 1914), and 

 finally it has been recorded by Miss Byley in the Shan States 

 Report (No. 14) as occurring there. On the other hand Bahifa 

 melanopepla has been recorded from some of the islands of the 

 Malay Archipelago, from the whole of the Malay Peninsula and 

 from Tenasserim, and here we have it from Mt. Popa. The 

 distribution of these two species throughout their habitats is 

 thus sketched out and there is little doubt that our Upper Chind^^■in 

 and Pegu Collections will support this view. 



