Below the maximum high-water mark the vegetation is all stunted, at least that of the rocks; a tufted Graminea is the most common.  Adelia nereifolia (Roxb.), a Celastrinea, a curious Rubiacea, which I also have from Moulmain, two Myrtaceae, a Rungia, are the most common.  I did not observe Podocarpus.  In the occasionally sandy spots Campanula, the usual Compositae, Panica three.  Eleusine, Clenopodium, and Atriplex are common, a Stemodia, and Asclepiadea likewise occur.  One Clematis carpellis imberbibus, and the Lonicera are met with.  No mosses appear to occur.  One remarkable tree, Belhoe of Assam, 70 feet high, cortice albido, foliis orbato, panculis (fructus) pendulis, occurs:  it has the appearance of an Amentaceous tree.

April 27th.—­We have remained at Bamoo; nothing appears to have been settled below, and the river is reported to be unsafe.  It has fallen at least three feet since our arrival.  Bayfield measured the left channel yesterday; it is nearly 750 yards wide.

Bamoo is situated on the left bank, along which its principal street runs.  The town is a very narrow one, the breadth averaging about 200 yards; its extent is considerable, but it scarcely contains 600 houses, and of these 105 are Chinese, and only has one good street, i.e. as to length.  Neither are the houses at all good or large, so that the population cannot be established at more than 3000.  I allude only to those within the stockade; out of this, and close to Bamoo are two or three small villages.  The stockade is of timber, pangaed, or fenced outside for about 30 yards; it has just been completely repaired, as an attack is expected from the Khukeens.

The Chinamen live all together, in a street of low houses built of unbaked bricks; these are not comparable to the houses at Moulmain.  There is but little trade now going on.  Within the stockade and without, low swampy ravines occur, that cannot be but injurious to the healthiness of the town.  The Myoowoon spends all his money in pagodas, none of which are worth seeing:  all the roads and bridges he leaves to take care of themselves.

The inferior caked tea, sugarcandy, silk dresses, straw hats, and caps are procurable, but at a high price.  Pork is plentiful, and the bazaar is well supplied with fish.  It is a much more busy place than Mogoung, as well as considerably larger.  The chief export trade with the Chinese is cotton; the revenue however by no means equals that of the Mogoung district.

The country around is nearly flat; on one side of the stockade there is an extensive marsh well adapted for paddy.  Otherwise the ground is dry, and tolerably well drained; it appears to have been formerly wooded; at present the environs are occupied by undershrubs.  I have observed no peculiar botanical feature.  Among the undershrubs are Phyllanthae 2, Apocynea arborescens, Gelonium, Combretum, Strychnos, Vitex, Melastoma.  When I say undershrubs, I mean that such is their present appearance.  The only new plant is an elegant Capparis, subscandens, floribus albis, odoratis demum filamentisque purpureo-roseis.  About old Pagodas, Pladera of Moulmain, a Labiata, Stemodia, and Andropogon occur.