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creepers, JEcldtes macropliylla, E. rhynclwsperma, and E. paniculata. 

 The first of these yields a considerable quantity of Caoutchouc. A 

 very elegant Rosaceous creeper is frequent on the river banks ; 

 other kinds too are numerous, whose foliage is handsome, but whose 

 flowers I have never seen. 



Higher up the river (twenty or thirty miles or so), still within 

 tidal influence, but where the banks are not so muddy as they are 

 below, Paritium tiliaceum ceases, and a species of Salix (S. tetra- 

 sperma?) takes its place, and continues until, at about the point 

 where the flood tide fails, it is in turn succeeded by a willow-like 

 EupJwrbiaceous plant, Hcematospermum neriifolium, as' the front 

 occupant of the bank. The Salix has here assumed the propor- 

 tions of a tree, and overhangs it. The same JEupliorbiaceous shrub 

 also covers the small islands, which are frequent in the shallow and 

 rapid parts of the river. 



The appearance of the vegetation has now changed considerably. 

 The banks of the river are steep and high, and the jangle much wil- 

 der and more dense. Bamboo, (Bambusa tulda ?) is abundant; long 

 rafts of it are floated down to Moulmein for building purposes, and 

 other uses. Tall rank grass crowns every spot on the bank that is des- 

 titute of trees. Calamus draco, C. verus and C. rotana, are frequent ; 

 the two last ascending to the tops of the highest trees and forming 

 an impenetrable tangle below. Nothing can be more elegant than 

 the shininor glossy foliage of these slender canes as they wave to 

 and fro to the wind. 



Now Butea superba will be detected by its deep orange-coloured 

 blossoms, seeming to be those of some large forest tree, at the very 

 top of which they delight to open out. The huge pods of Entada 

 purscetlia catch the eye. The bright yellow flowers of a species of 

 Oclma (0. lucida?), having the fragrance of the violet, are a great 

 ornament to the banks. The modest flowers of Capparis trifoliata 

 may be frequently noticed, and the petals of creeping Bauhinias 

 are seen floating down the stream. Flacourtia catapliracta is a not 

 uncommon tree, and here and there, towering above every thing else 

 (the true giant of the forest), a huge wood-oil tree, Dipterocarpus 

 alatus or turbinatus? Duabanga sonneratioides is common in some 

 spots. This is a handsome tree with very large leaves, and branches 



