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This is the method I adopted with my collection book, and with 

 the tickets placed on the specimen on the day of collection ; many 

 of these have been destroyed by insects, or lost by the continual 

 change of papers; and though I not unfrequently gave a fresh 

 number to a species already entered, yet I found this method to be 

 of great use to me when I came to arrange into families, and there- 

 fore continued it up to No. 1566 : after which, I headed with the 

 genus or family only. 



From June 1843 to October, I was principally in the neighbour- 

 hood of Seebsagur, Nazera Satrorah, Jorehaut, and Deorgaon, and 

 gathered 900 species, but lost many of them during the rains. In 

 November I went to Dopabur, here I found the Limnocharis, No. 

 1001, seeds of which I sent to poor Griffith, but I never heard if 

 they vegetated. I have never seen the genus in any list of Indian 

 plants. Is it in Wallich's list? From Dopabur I proceeded to Dikho 

 Mookh, and accompanied Major Jenkins up the Brahmapootra to 

 Dibrooghur, Rungagora, Shaikwah, and Suddeya, and returning to 

 Seebsagur in January 1844, I accompanied Capt. Brodie over the 

 Naga hills from the Dikho to the Dyung : the ravines between the 

 hills are very rich, but ours was a hurried march, and I could not 

 stay to explore. 



From the hills I returned to Seebsagur, thence I proceeded to 

 Luckimpoor, where I found that curious plant described by Dr. 

 Griffith, Jenkinsia Assamica.* Returning to Seebsagur I again ac- 

 companied Capt. Brodie to the hills. After which, in February 

 1845, I proceeded by the falls of the Nambur through the Rajah 

 Tooleram's country to the falls of the Jumoona. In May and June 

 I arranged, and put in order what I had collected, and in August 

 again proceeded to Luckimpoor, visiting the banks of the Soondree 

 immediately under the Duphla hills : there I found the beautiful 

 gigantic Tacca, No. 1966. From Luckimpoor I again visited Dibroo- 

 ghur, Shaikwah, and Suddeya, and proceeded as high up the great 

 river as the Brahmakoond. So that all my specimens have been 

 gathered between the falls of the Jumoona and the Brahmakoond. 



In the list forwarded to Major Jenkins, I have kept up a running 

 number on the left, and on the right are the corresponding numbers 



* Vol. iv. p. 231. 



