They have religious houses or places of worship, deo-ghurs, in one of which I slept, having it first cleansed, and the deity appeased by some most villainous music, and a procession of men with knives.

At this village Carica, Ficus elastica, Ficus cordifolius, Ricinus, Artocarpus intigrifol, Tamarind, Guava, Musa, Solanum Melongena, tobacco, etc., are cultivated.

Caryophyllea scandens, Desmochaeta, Plumbago, Plectranthus azureus, Phlebochiton, Cassia tora, Orthopogon, Adhatoda, Mangifera, Croton malvaefol, Hastingsia, Torenia asiatica, Caricinea, Leea, Prunus!  Congea!  Antidesma, Rottleria, Clerodendron nutans, Calamus, Xanthochymus.  Mesua ferrea, Garcinia Cowa, Leea arbuscula, Dalhousia, Roxburghia, are found on the ascent which is moderate and pretty.

The heavy tree or bamboo jungle does not begin until you attain 12 or 1,500 feet, up to that, the ridges present the former grasses.  Rottboellia, Andropogons, Erianthus, Saccharum, Anthistiria, and the trees are scattered consisting of Arborescent Leguminosae, Sterculia, Cedrela, Semicarpus continues to the tree jungle, but rarely.

The road to the village runs through heavy woods, the plants forming which I have already mentioned, it is in good order.  The village is a Lalung one.

At Dullagong, which is situated in the plains of Assam, at the foot of the range the temperature being 66 degrees, 8.5 A.M., water boiled at 211.1 degrees in the large thermometer. 100 centigrade, and above the boiling point in the wooden. 205.5 degrees in the small metal thermometer.

Between this and Goba, the path is generally through grass or tree jungle.  I noticed Exacum, Careya, Butea arborea, Ficus, Cinchona, Kydia, Saccharum Megala fuscum masus, Spathodea, Alstonia, Bombax, Semicarpus!  AEgle Marmelos, Emblica, Panax, Elephantopus, and Lagerstraemia Reginae succeeds about Goba:  and between this and Dhumria, the country being low and highly cultivated, presents generally the appearance of one sheet of rice.  In this march I observed one or two instances of the absolute enclosure of Dicotyledonous trunks by Fici.  This enclosure arises entirely from the excessive tendency to cohesion between the roots and radicles of some of the species of this genus.  With these, an expert gardener might produce any form he likes; the tendency exists in all to throwing out additional roots; in few only to excess.  In the generality it is limited to the trunk and often to its base.  Nobody can understand this genus who cannot study it from living specimens.

Cardiopterus is very common along the foot of these hills:  it abounds with milky juice, and in habit and some other points approaches nearer to Chenopodiaceae than Sapindaceae.

December 7th.—­Returned from Jeypore, whither I had been to report on the Caoutchouc trees. {193}