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pines, which are of moderate size, Gordonia, Castanea, and Quercus : 

 Mimosea occurs, also Saurauja. The grasses are as before, except 

 that the Anthisteria of Nunklow appears, with Volkameria, Verbena 

 Primulacse, and Osbeckia capitate, foliis lineari oblongis, floribus 

 carneis. Towards the foot, the scenery still improves. 



The woods consist of pines and a Quercus foliis castanese cupulis 

 echinatis, Arbor mediocris ; the slopes as well as the valley are 

 cultivated chiefly for rice, this last often assuming the terrace 

 fashion. The river is of considerable width, 50 to 60 yards, but of no 

 depth : two here flow together, and at the end of the valley a still 

 larger stream not fordable in the rains, at least where I crossed, 

 meets it. On the streams at the base of the Suneassa acclivity, 

 Salix, Ligustrum, Ficus frutex humelis, and a fine Indigofera occur. 

 Moving thence along the valley the vegetation becomes tropical, 

 although pines descend nearly to its level. Pontederia the small one 

 of Bengal, ditto Sagittaria Vandellia?, Pose 3, Apluda, Cyperaceae, 

 Saccharum megala, and spontaneum, Elytrophorus, Ammannia, 

 Erianthus, Cnicus ! Artemisia as before, Arundo exalum, Cirsium, 

 Carduus ! Scitamineae 2, Panicum curvatum, Setaria glauca, Swertia 

 angustifolia ! Volkameriae sp., Ranunculus hirsutoideus ! Zizania 

 ciliaris. 



Those marked with, [!,] have probably straggled down. The culti- 

 vation is chiefly of rice, Eleusine, Coix, and the edible seeded 

 Labiata. Grasses abound ; in addition to those above several new ones 

 occur, Rottboellia exallata, Anthisteria of Nunklow, Arundinaceoe, 

 Andropogones several, Saccharum fusco-rubum, 25 species might 

 certainly be collected. 



Fine pines occur on the other ascent from its base to apex. Here 

 also occurs Phcenix pumile, which as well as the Rottboellia, which I 

 think I have seen in the Magoung valley (during the journey to Ava), 

 and Buddlea neemda. 



The ascent gained, the country appears level, covered with the 

 usual grasses. The ravines are well wooded, but few pines occur, 

 although they may be seen here and there. The woods appear the 

 same as those of Churra. Pandanus sp. altera ? occurs. In one ravine 

 gathered a new Thebaudiaceae allied to T. variegata, differing in its 

 short greenish flowers and its smoothness. 



