As we approached Rangagurrah the ground became higher, in addition to which it is better drained.  We crossed about two miles from Rangagurrah a small rivulet, a tributary of the Deboro; no plants but one of much interest was detected en route.  That one was a fine forest tree affecting damp low places, apparently very limited in extent.  It is a new genus, belonging to Hamemelideae, and we have called it Sedgwickia cerasifolia.  On our arrival at Rangagurrah we were met by the Burra-seena Puttee, ‘Big warrior,’ who escorted us to the houses he had caused to be erected for us, and which were at a little distance from the village itself.  During our association with him or with his country, he was remarkably attentive and civil, and as he is an independent man he pleased me much.  On the —­ Feb. we reached Tingrei, a poor village about ten miles to the S.E. of Rangagurrah, situated on the west bank of the rivulet of the same name, another tributary of the Deboroo.  On the same morning as the march was very short, we proceeded to examine the tea, and the following day was likewise given up to another examination.  The tea here may be characterised as dwarf, no stems that I saw exceeding fifteen feet in height; it had just passed flowering.  It occurs in great abundance, and to much greater extent than in any of the places at which we had previously examined it.  But here it is neither limited by peculiarity of soil or such slight elevation as the place affords; it grows indiscriminately on the higher ground where the soil is of a brownish yellow, and on which it attains a larger size than elsewhere, or on clumps occurring in low raviny ground and associated with fine bamboos.  This ground was intersected by a very tortuous dry nullah bed, on the banks of which tea was very abundant.  On either side of the jungle in which it is found, extensive clearings occur, so that it is impossible to say what its original extent may have been; I am inclined to think, however that its limit was with the commencement of a small clearing running to the N.W. of a village situated on the west bank of the Tingrei, and that not much has been cut down.

[The Himalaya from Rangagurrah:  p19.jpg]

The extent may be roughly estimated as follows, reckoning from the entrance into the jungle in a south easterly direction:  the one in fact of our route from the village to the tea.

S.E. 180 yards, after which it disappears, but shews itself again sparingly about 100 yards further on, and in the same direction.

To the S. of this I found none, its direction being totally changed; its general direction being now,

N.W. or N.N.W. in which, and in about 200 yards from the place at which it ceased towards the south, it becomes very abundant, and continues so in a

W.N.W. course for about 220 yards.

Thence it appears to be interrupted for the space of 80 or 100 yards.