Notes of an excursion along [no. 6, new series, 



Dodoncea angustifolia, and Connarvs monocarpus are also in abund- 

 ance here. This latter shrub has flowers of exquisite fragrance, and 

 is constantly in blossom The black seed is surrounded by a yellow 

 pulpy aril which is used by the Natives in the following cases. 

 There is a kind of a worm which attacks their feet when bathing in 

 tanks or walking in muddy places and by the application of the 

 aril of this seed the worm is either destroyed or expelled. A pretty 

 flowering shrub along the road side is the Osbeckia aspera and a 

 smaller species the 0. virgata. Carissas are very frequent, the Holos- 

 Umma Rheedii, a charming creeper may occasionally may be met with. 

 It is the Adakodien of the Hortus Malabaricus. As a creeper for 

 trellis work few Asclepiads could vie with it3 elegant flowers in 

 beauty, Asystasia Coromandeliana, (a variety with yellow flowers 

 like our English Primrose,) and a beautiful epiphyte the Vanda 

 spathulata of a deeper yellow still are common. But I have no space 

 to enumerate all the beauties of Floras that might be gathered in a 

 ramble through these jungles. Among others may be found Litsea 

 Zeylanica, Careya arhorea, Syzygium Zeylanicum, Ixora coccinea, 

 Vitis lanata, Gratiola monniera, Cyanoiis axillaris, Bryophyllum 

 calycinum, Morinda exserta, Callicarpa lanata, Smilax ovalifolia, &c, 

 &c. On reaching Cunneapooram, there is great abundance of the 

 Calophyllum spurium, which tree is easily recognised by its young 

 leaves being of a reddish brown hue, giving a singular appearance | 

 to the forests at the season of the year when they begin to sprout. 

 At this time (October) the tree is in full flower. 



At Cunneapooram the back-water commences. Here a hybrid 

 kind of boat for the reception of the Palankeen was in readiness. 

 This is called a Jangadum, and consists of two canoes lashed to- 

 gether with a platform over them. Upon this latter flooring the 

 palkee is placed, and the whole is urged lazily through the water, 

 two rowers and two men with long bamboo poles. The water here 

 is rather wide in some places— but not deep. The banks are lined 

 with the Cocoa palm and low brush-wood. There is no object of 

 interest until you come to the town or rather village of Anjengo, 

 formerly a place of some note in our early commercial relations 

 with these parts, but now a desolute and almost deserted spot. 

 Anjengo, a corruption of two Tamil words " Unjee Tenkal" the 



