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that it was brought from some distance ; it is said to grow on a 

 low range of hills. We started after breakfast, and reached Culle- 

 yang, on the same nullah, about 1 2 o'clock. Total distance thirteen 

 miles ; direction S. S. E. Path very winding. The country tra- 

 versed is much less open than that of Nempean, but few Putars 

 occurred j and the whole tract is covered either with tree or Me- 

 gala jungle. Water boiled at Shelling khet at 209^- Fahr. Temp, of 

 the air 68^°. Elevation 1340 feet. Noticed but very little clearing 

 for cultivation, neither did the Putars appear to have been lately un- 

 der cultivation. 



Culleyang is a village containing about eight houses ; it is not 

 stockaded, and has the usual slovenly appearance of Singpho villages. 

 The natives keep silkworms, which they feed on the Chykwar or 

 Assam morus, which they cultivate. I noticed likewise Kanee, or 

 Opium, and Urtica nivea, which they use for nets ; Acanthaceae, In- 

 digofera, and Peach trees. 



Close to the village are the burying places of two Singphos. 

 These have the usual structure of the cemeteries of the tribe, 

 the graves being covered by a high conical thatched roof. I 

 find from Bayfield, that they first dry their dead, preserving them 

 in odd shaped coffins, until the drying process is completed. 

 They then burn the body, afterwards collecting the ashes, which 

 are finally deposited in the mounds over which the conical sheds are 

 erected. Between the village and the graves I saw one of these 

 coffins which, if it contained a full-grown man, must have admitted 

 the remains in a mutilated shape ; and close to this were the bones 

 of a corpse lately burnt. 



To-day I shot the beautiful yellow and black crested Bird we 

 first saw on the Cossiya hills, Parus Sultaneus, and two handsome 

 Birds, Orioles, or Pastor Traillii, quite new to me, blackish and 

 bright crimson, probably allied to the Shrikes. 



Of fishes, Cyprinus falcata, or Nepoora of the Assamese, together 

 with the Sentooree* of the Assamese, both occur. Of plants, we no- 

 ticed Stauntonia, Vitis, Cissampelos, Butomus pygmaeus, Dicksonia, 

 Hedychia 2, Croton Malvsefolium of Suddiya, Xanthium indicum ; 

 Cheilosandra ferruginea, Pothos scandens decursiva, etc., Lirioden- 

 drum, Kydia. Ficus elastica ? Asplenium nidus, Conyza graveo- 

 lens, south of the old clearings. Lemna, Valisneria, Azolla, ^Escu- 

 lus asamicus in abundance. Limes in profusion near Culleyang; 

 * Since described as Cyprinus semiplotus, As. Res. vol. xix. p. 346. 



