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and secondly the Milium, both of which were more perfect here. 

 The arm of the Ghodaveri stream forms here many big and 

 small bays, which could shelter a whole flotilla, if only at its 

 mouth the water were deep enough, \\q passed many muddy 

 minor arms of the afore mentioned stream, which the palanquin 

 bearers w^aded through ; the water was however all intermixed 

 with salt water which was proved by the circumstance of the 

 Kali growing in abundance, some species of scdsola and CJieno- 

 jooclia, and also some Bontia, growing here as a tiny shrub. There 

 were innumerable brown shoots standing in the muddy soil, they 

 were pointed, longer than a foot and resembling the stubbles in 

 a field. Further inland I frequently saw Exccecaria of both sex- 

 es ; but very rarely Rhizojjhora. 



My palanquin bearers took me across a wide arm of this 

 stream, which was filled with a plant whose leaves were hairlike, 

 but my people would not stop, because the water issaid to be 

 full of crocodiles, By chance I got some specimens of the Biip- 

 pia maritima by means of my stick, whilst sitting in mypalanquin. 

 This is a plant I had not found in India before. 



Then we came to some meadows, upon which grew some 

 specimens of Ej'shosia (IVy^/z/'o^/r/ .'') with big yellow flowers. I 

 have seen this plant several times growing' somewhat taller than 

 a finger, but those I saw here were almost one foot high, they 

 looked very pretty among' the smaller EvolvuJi and the Schoenus 



Other plants were not yet in bloom here, because the 



rain had begun to fall. 



We passed a narrow but very deep arm of the river, said 

 to be full of crocodiles, in two palm boats, or Saugeri, as they are 

 called here, tied together. 



The shore was rather higher here and a little further inland 

 there stood millions of palms and coco-palms, very few other 

 kinds, and these were,Mimusops Kauki, some CratoevaTapia, some 

 already in bloom, a few plants of Pedaliu/n Murex. In places where 

 the soil was composed of red sand, there grew a kind of grass of a 

 beautiful green colour with distichous leaves lanceolateacute shin- 

 ing waved on the surface. I could not see whether this wasPa»/- 

 cum capillare, — because not one among so many thousands was 

 jet in bloom, — though they looked very much like this plant. 



At last towards 12 o'clock we arrived in Madepolam, and 

 we took quarters at the Factors' horse. 



