1836.] Note on a Remnant of the Hun Nation. 813 



The Monocotyledonous forms are chiefly those of other parts of 

 India. Among the Orchidece two species of Calanthe, and two of Po- 

 gonia occur, as well as one species of Spiranthes. Among the Grami- 

 nese the most interesting is a Diandrous species of Alopecurus, which 

 genus is, I believe, new to India ; at least to any portion of the plains. 

 Of the Cyperacese, I shall only advert to the existence of four 

 species of Carex, two of which are, however, from the Abor Hills ; 

 a third, which was originally sent by Captain Jenkins to Dr. Wal- 

 lich, appears to be widely distributed, extending from Gawahati to 

 Jorhdth ; the fourth ; I have only met with about Sadiyd. 



But perhaps the most interesting plants of the whole collection are 

 contained among those " incertae sedis," a division, always to a be- 

 ginner, of great extent. Most of these are from the lower ranges of 

 the Abor Hills ; and the appearance of these is quite sufficient to 

 ensure their being of great interest. 



XI. — Note on a Remnant of the Hun Nation. [Vide Chap. 26 of the 

 " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" under the head of " Ori- 

 ginal Seat of the Huns." By Captain W. Foley. 



" One of the princes of the nation (Hun) was urged by fear and 

 ambition to retire towards the south with eight hordes, which com- 

 posed between forty and fifty thousand families ; he obtained under 

 the title of ' Tanjou' a convenient territory on the verge of the 

 Chinese Empire." (A. D. 48.) 



Now, there are a people located in various parts of the Bama 

 (Burmese) and Shan (Siamese) empires, who are distinguished by 

 the appellation of " Ton-soo" or " Ton-dzoo :" they have a language of 

 their own, and differ in feature, dress, and domestic manners from 

 the inhabitants of the country in which they reside ; they never 

 intermarry with their neighbours, and assert their descent from "a 

 people who came from the north ;" they are an ugly, swarthy race ; 

 both men and women closely resembling the picture of the Huns 

 drawn by Gibbon in his immortal history. Broad faces, flat noses, 

 small eyes, short, squat (but athletic) figures, are the most prominent 

 beauties. The men wear their hair long in common with the Bama, 

 but their dress, which is always of a dark colour, much resembles the 

 garb of the Chinese : the women have a fillet of dark- coloured 

 cloth (generally with a red or white border) tastefully arranged as a 

 head-dress, and falling down over the back ; a mantle of the same 

 colour and material extending from the shoulders to a little beyond 



