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which spread out horizontally. The inflorescence consists of large 

 terminal corymbs of white flowers, whose weight causes the branches 

 to droop elegantly. 



Here too grow many other trees, of which I must confess myself 

 ignorant. Among them, a very graceful one with light birch-like 

 foliage, is especially noticeable, being so abundant as to give quite 

 a character to the vegetation. It had neither flower nor fruit when 

 we passed. 



We left the boats at a place called Tlialiya-zeih, about eighty 

 miles or so from Moulmein by the river course, which is very tor- 

 tuous ; and thence proceeded by land to Thonzoo or the three Pago- 

 das. 



During the whole of our journey, from the time we left the Atta- 

 ran until we struck the Houngdrau river (thirteen days), one and 

 the same Geological formation prevailed, viz. mountain (?) lime- 

 stone ; there was consequently a general sameness in the character 

 of the vegetation. It will not, therefore, be necessary to do much 

 more than throw together the names of those trees and other 

 plants, which I noticed in the journey as being known to me. 



Eor the benefit of those who have not travelled in the Tenasse- 

 rim Provinces, and are not perhaps aware how rank is the vegeta- 

 tion all over them, it may be as well to mention, that while we con- 

 tinued on low ground, it was a rare circumstance to see more than 

 a hundred yards in advance ; and so dense in many places was the 

 jungle, that an occasional sight only was obtained of the tops of the 

 magnificent perpendicular limestone rocks, at the very foot of which 

 we were passing. And afterwards, among the mountains, the case 

 was very generally the same. Anything that could be called a view 

 of the country was rarely obtained, an occasional glimpse of some 

 distant feature in the landscape being all that we could catch 

 through the trees. 



At the spot where we left our boats, Thaliya, the alluvial plain, 

 which, nearly up to this point, had stretched far away on either 

 side of the river, may be said to have been fairly left behind. 

 Indeed, for some miles before reaching Thaliya, the high banks were 

 seen to consist almost entirely of rolled pebbles, cemented into a 

 coarse conglomerate, as if the river, as it wound its way about the 



