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Anonacea, liabitu Guttiferae, qualiter Hebradendron, the aspect of 

 the young flower is like that of a Meliacea, aestivation imprimis 

 aperta, 3 sepala, 6 petiila, albiflora. Dillinia macrophylla. 



Balookar. — Tliis always occurs on soil strewed with laterite, Hi- 

 biscus macrophyllus. Caesalpinia. 



In great forests the surface of the soil is moist, generally clayey. 

 No gregarious plants occur but Melaleuca Leucodendron, and Man 

 groves, the former alone exclusively so. 



Henslovia rubiflora. — Arbor magna, fol. coriaceis conduplicatis, ra- 

 cemis paniculatis, calyce rubescent, filam longe exserta. The aspect 

 at first resembles some Sapindaceae of this place. Two trees of this 

 were blown down in Bhyass jungle, Ching, Oct. 1842. 



Scrophularinea, Synphyllium. Prostrat radicans, fl. ringens com- 

 planat, lob 2 parallelis apice tantum recurvis, supera albo, inferioris 

 albis cceruleo-striatis. 



On foot paths in the margins of dense jungles. 



Ai/a Pimus. Hot spring — The hot spring is built up as a well, 

 and is so hot that you are just able to bear your fingers in it. The 

 water bubbles up, occasionally emitting a sulphurous smell. It is 

 said to be hotter in the morning, and after rain than at other times. 

 But all the surrounding swamp is hot, the latter consists of ferrugi- 

 nous mud. The discharge of water from the spring is ever the same. 



There does not seem to be any change in the surrounding vege- 

 tation, the swampy parts presenting the usual marshy features, one 

 Sirdung (Corypha) appeared to suffer. The jungle Balookar is 

 much the same as at Prinjite, and Ayer Punnut. On the road out 

 there is little to be seen but Balookar^ the forest having been cut 

 down to within fifty fathoms of the road of on each side, which is 

 now separated from the forest, by dense Balookar vegetation. Nor 

 is the forest itself so grand as that of Rhim. The same Balookar 

 forest extends to Ayer Punnus, except at Ladang, where there was 

 some recent clearing. During the Journey to the hot spring I did 

 not get more than five plants I had not found before, namely, Eri- 

 odendron ; a shrub called Kuboo-Kupass Gossypium, Kupass Ku- 

 pass jungly Gossypium with 4 cottony seeds, Mirhow is I think Le- 

 guminosa and Bilirous belongs to the same family. 



Eawa Rawa Mangifera, Arbor mediocris, corona dense rotunda. 

 Fruit flesh yellow, whea ripe out side is blue. Lebang, Vitex (tri- 



