Habitus quodammodo Wallichiae.  Hab. in Umbrosissimis.

An arbuscula Anonacea, floribus dioicis, Mas. corollae petalis apice valvatim cohaerentibus, basi apertis, potius distantibus, Ovariis (faem) pedicellatis, also occurred.

Fructus elliptico-oblongus, subuncialis, hinc a basi ad styli punctum linea tenui exsculptus, unilocularis, unisporus.  Endocarp, ac testa viscoso-gelatinosa.  Testa ac tegumen intera membr. chartacea.  Albumen copiosum hinc et suturae fructus oppositae, profundius exarat. sectione transversa-reniformi.  Carnoso albumeni germen secus sulcum affixium.  Embryo in axi albuminis, radicul super.  Cotyledones foliaceae, albae, amplae, curvat seminis sequentes:  suturae placental, oppositae.  Ejusdem generis cum Menispermea:  in sylvis Singfoensibus cum Wallichia:  vide Icones.

Arrived at Kioukgyee at 5 P.M.  Waited on and dined with the Meewoon, who is a gentlemanly, spare, lively man with grey hair.  Dinner was good, and clean.  Preserved dried jujubes from China, as well as some preserved by himself were very good.  Kioukgyee is on the right bank of the river, which is here undivided by islands, and about 1200 yards broad.  Just above the town there are some rocks.  The number of houses is about eighty-five, most of them arranged in a broad street running along the river, and the best that I have seen for some time.

The village is surrounded by a new and wretched stockade, the outskirts being fenced or pangaed; the people are on the qui vive, and the whole village seems to be in a constant state of alarm.  All the jungle immediately adjoining the town is cut down; many of the houses are unroofed, and all the gates are guarded.  Visited this morning the lines occupied by the attacking force; these were not 300 yards from the village, and occupied the skirts of the jungle:  trees had been felled and earth thrown up, but not in such a manner as to obstruct in any way tolerably brave men.  We saw none of the slain, we may therefore doubt if there were any, but it was evident from platters, etc. strewed about, that the flight of the robbers had been very precipitate.  We passed some little distance above this, a holy island, the numberless small pagodas on which, had a very pretty effect.  Close to these there was a small village, Sheweygyoo, which had been just burnt down by the Kioukgyee people, for giving assistance to the robbers; this as well as two other contiguous villages before occupied a good extent of the left bank, and numbered probably 150 houses.  Most of the inhabitants have retreated up the river.

May 8th.—­Reached Katha at 6 P.M.  Throughout the day saw little of interest.  What we did see, gave evident tokens of disturbances,:  villages deserted; dogs starved, howling piteously; canoes without owners.  At one village a few miles below Kioukgit, our arrival caused much excitement, and a gun was fired off as a signal of alarm on our approach.