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MISHMEE MOUNTAINS. 



of Eleusine, Bobosa ; 3rd, Zea Mays, Gorm dan ; 4th, Panicum Pa- 

 nicula nutanti, densa clavata. 5th Konee, Chenapodium sp. panicula 

 simili. 



The Mishmee names are as follow : Dan-khai rice ; khai hoo, bo- 

 bosa, Mdo.-zea, or Maize, Ma-bon-konee-yo Chenopodium ; Then- 

 na, a kind of Polygonum ; Hubra-Aloo, Ghee-kuchoo-shoom, Sweet 

 potatoe ; Gaihwan, Plantain ; Puhee Dhoonhwa, Tobacco. They like- 

 wise cultivate Sesamum. 



Nov. I8ih. — Found more of the Rafflesiacea on low hills along the 

 Paeen ; it was attached to the roots of the same species of Cissus, 

 on which it was found before.* I also gathered a Euonymus and 

 a fine Engelhardtia. The hairs of the fruits of Engelhardtia create 

 a disagreeable itching. All the Mishmees decline shewing me the 

 road a foot in advance of this place. I tried every way I could 

 think of, to overcome their objections, but to no purpose. They have 

 so little regard for truth, that one cannot rely much on what they 

 say : I begin to think that it is all owing to the Tapan Gam, who I 

 suspected was insincere in his professions. 



Nov. 19th. — Yesterday evening Premsong arrived, he is a man about 

 35, the best looking of all the Gams : but has rather a cunning Jewish 

 face % The brandy I gave him made him at first wonderfully oblig- 

 ing, for he seemed disposed to enter into my views. This morn- 

 ing however he came with Khosha and Tapan, by whom it was at 

 once obvious that he has been overruled ; not only will he not take 

 me to the Lama Dais (plains,) but he won't even shew me the 

 road to Truesong's, a Digaroo, whose village is only distant about five 

 days' journey. Premsong I know wishes to go, induced by the pro- 

 mise of 200 Rs. but he is afraid of incurring the displeasure of 

 Khosha, etc. I shall therefore return towards Deeling, and devote 

 a few days to botanising on Thuma-thaya. 



Nov. 20th. — Returned to Ghaloom's : gathered the Martynia, finely 

 in flower, and observed the Rafflesiacea along the banks of the Lohit. 



Nov. 2\st. — Halted at Ghaloom's, the Rafflesiacea is found all about, 

 anth. bilocular, apice poro-gemino dehiscent, pollen simplex, materie 

 viscosa cohserenti, ovula antitropa, tegumento unico. Made every 

 arrangement with Premsong. According to this Gam we are to go up 

 the Diree, and then cross over high mountains, leaving the Lohit 

 entirely. He says the Lamas wear trowsers, socks and shoes, and 



* Subsequently described by the author in an important communication to the 

 Linnaean Society. 



