228 THE BOTANY OF THE KACHIN HILLS NORTH-EAST OF MYITKYINA. 
Myitkyinat (C). DiSTRlB. Sylhet and Assam ; also the Malay 
Peninsula ; our specimens are the first recorded from Burma. 
6, Goniothalamus peduncularis Ktng& Prain, 
Myitkyina (C). A very distinct species, nearer ta Gardneri 
and G, ThwaitesH^ which are both Ceylon plants, than it is to any of 
the Indian species, 
7. Miliusa macfocarpa H. /. ^ T, 
Bansparao, 2,000 ft. (E). Distrib, Eastern Himalaya; Khasia 
Hills; never before reported from Burma, 
IV.— MENISPERMACE.E. 
8. Parabcena sagittata Miers, 
Namlao (E). Distrib. Eastern Himalaya ; Khasia ; Chittagong ; 
Andamans ; Pegu ; South-West Yunnan {Anderson ). 
9. Pericampylus incanus Miers, 
Namli, 2,000 ft. (E); Kakhying, 1000 feet (E). Distrib Eastern 
Himalaya ; Southern China ; Indo-China ; Malaya, 
10. Cyclea ? sp. 
Namli, 2,000 ft. (E). Distrib. Taping Valley. 
A very distinct plant, previously collected in the adjacent region 
of South-West Yunnan by Dr. J, Anderson, F.R.S. Neither Dr, 
Anderson’s specimens nor ours have flowers or fruits, so that a name 
cannot be given to the species. In the Calcutta Herbarium both 
Mr, Kurz and Dr. King have referred the plant tentatively to Cyclea^ 
and there is hardly room for doubt that it is an undescribed species 
of that genus. The subjoined description will show how different 
it is from any of the species hitherto published. 
Leaves thinly membranous, peltate, ovate-rotund, entire, sparsely 
beset on both surfaces with long adpressed hairs, and with similar, 
but spreading, hairs fringing the leaf margins and clothing the very 
slender, somewhat wiry stems. 
PAPAVERACE/E. 
\Papaver somniferum Linn.— Usually Kachin gardens contain 
a few plants of the opium Poppy. The collection and mode of 
smoking the drug have been described in the introductory chapter. 
The opium is used as a food-accessory and not as a narcotic; never- 
theless there are among the Kachins some who do not smoke it* 
and who pride themselves on being non-smokers, just as certain 
Europeans make a boast of not using tobacco. No stigma attaches 
to the opium-smoker, and those Kachins who do not themselves use 
