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it attached itself to a tree and scrambled among its branches. The 

 flowers were numerous, at the end of the branched stem in loose 

 panicles, rather large, boat-shaped, yellow. The whole plant has 

 been sent to Sir William Hooker for determination with many 

 other things. 



Of other epiphytes, there were various kinds of Aeschynanthus, 

 Hot/a, and Hedychium. The most frequent creepers or climbing 

 plants, were Butea superba, Congea velutina, and Thunbergia lauri- 

 folia. These three may be said to be ubiquitous. It is extremely- 

 remarkable that the last-named plant should have remained, until 

 so very lately, undescribed, when we consider that several Botanists 

 have visited our jungles, that it is almost impossible to walk two or 

 three miles in any part of the Provinces without meeting with it, 

 and that it is in flower nearly all the year round. The beauty of the 

 jungles was much increased by these three fine creepers, as they 

 were all in full flower at this time. A species of Pongamia, with 

 small purple flowers, is a great ornament also. A large thorny 

 Mimosa is common, Paratropia digitata occasionally occurs, and a 

 species of Clematis, also different kinds of Asclepiadeae, Bauhinia, 

 Bioscorea, Momordica, Cucurbit a, Ipomoea, Mucuna, Sfc. 



The ferns gathered, or noticed, besides those mentioned above, 

 were Brynaria quercifolia, B. irioides, Alsophila gigantea ? Asplenium 

 nitidum, Neottopteris nidus, Bigrammaria esculenta, Brymoglossum 

 piloselloides, Bolybotrya setosa, Nephrodium molle, By g odium scan- 

 dens, Bteris pellucida, Pt. biaurita, Pt. aquilina, Adiantum Capillus 

 Veneris, Tricho manes Javanicum, Schizoloma ensifolia, Platy cerium 

 Wollicliii, Ophioglossum pendulum and others. Brynaria quercifolia 

 strange to say, was never seen in the hilly district of the Siamese 

 Shan States, but its place was there supplied by B. Coronans, which 

 in like manner, was entirely absent from the plains. With the Also- 

 phila I am puzzled. A. gigantea is said to grow fifty feet high, and 

 the Tenasserim Mountains are given as one of its habitats. I have 

 seen something of the Tenasserim jungles and hundreds of this 

 plant (specimens of which sent to Sir W. Hooker have been named 

 A. gigantea) but never one with a true caudex or one that could be 

 fairly called a tree fern. It is generally from five to six feet high 

 only, the fronds themselves being that length. I have, however, 



