UNDESCRIBED OBJECTS MET WITH. 



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I saw nothing particular in the woods. I picked up the fruit of a 

 Magnolea and Castanea, and observed an arborescent Leea. Some 

 of the timber is fine. A large Acrotirchea abounds between Laee 

 and the Koond, as well as Chloranthus. Near the Laee a climber, 

 the base of whose stem is elephantopoid and enormous considering 

 the slender stem, is abundant. I could not get any of the leaves. 

 At the Koond, Buddleia Neemda, a Prunus, etc. occur. Cselogyne 

 polleniis 4 obovatis, faciebus incumbentibus complanates materie 

 pulverea, mediocri. Dundoons are rather troublesome ; they are flies, 

 and nearly as large as an ordinary house fly : their proboscis is large, 

 and leaves spot of extravasated blood where they bite, nearly of the 

 size of an ordinary pin's head. 



Oct. 27th. — My people brought me in a beautiful snake, Coluber 

 porphyraceus, ventre albo, caeterum pulchre coccineo-badio, capite 

 lineis nigris tribus quarum centralis brevior, dorso lineis nigris duabu3 

 postea gradatim evanescentibus, lineis circularibus minus conspicuis, 

 iridibus carneis.* 



Oct. 2%th. — Yesterday evening two elephants arrived with grain, 

 so that I have every prospect of being fairly on my way in a day or 

 two. Nothing worth seeing has occurred, except a man who by some 

 accident had the lobe of his ear torn, and had the fragments stitched 

 together with silver wire. 



Oct. 31s£. — Halted at the Laee-panee, and gathered an Oberonea, 

 and specimens of fish.f 



Nov. 1st. — Dirty weather ; rain looking much as if it were going 

 to continue for several days. There is a small drupaceous fruit 

 found here and at Beesa, the Singfo name of which is Let-tan-shee ; 

 it is the produce of a large tree probably the fruit of a Chrysobalanus, 

 testibus stylo Interali, stam, perigynis : cotyledonibus crispatis. The 

 flavour is acid, rather pleasant, and somewhat terebinthinaceous. 



Nov. 2nd. — I thought it best to set off, although it was raining hea- 

 vily. Our course lay in an E. direction up the Karam for about two 

 hours, when it diverged : it thence after passing through some heavy 

 jungle continued up the steep bed of the now dry Dailoom ; it next di- 

 verged again about 2 p.m., when we ascended a small hill ; it continued 



* Subsequently described from this specimen in the Proceedings of the Zoologi- 

 cal Society, March 12, 1839. Cat. Journ. Nat. Hist, vol 1, p. 82. 



t Gonorhynclius bimacalutus, G. brachypterus, Perilompus eequipinnatus, 

 and Cobitis phoxocheila, which have been all since described from these specimens 

 in the 19th vol. As. Res. Beng. 



