[The Deo-Panee as it enters the Khoond:  p28.jpg]

I saw nothing particular in the woods.  I picked up the fruit of a Magnolia and Castanea, and observed an arborescent Leea.  Some of the timber is fine.  A large Acrotirchea abounds between Laee and the Koond, as well as Chloranthus.  Near the Laee a climber, the base of whose stem is elephantopoid and enormous considering the slender stem, is abundant.  I could not get any of the leaves.  At the Koond, Buddleia Neemda, a Prunus, etc. occur.  Caelogyne polleniis 4 obovatis, faciebus incumbentibus complanates materie pulverea, mediocri.  Dundoons are rather troublesome; they are flies, and nearly as large as an ordinary house fly:  their proboscis is large, and leaves spots of extravasated blood where they bite, nearly of the size of an ordinary pin’s head.

Oct. 27th.—­My people brought me in a beautiful snake, Coluber porphyraceus, ventre albo, caeterum pulchre coccineo-badio, capite lineis nigris tribus quarum centralis brevior, dorso lineis nigris duabus postea gradatim evanescentibus, lineis circularibus minus conspicuis, iridibus carneis. {29a}

Oct. 28th.—­Yesterday evening two elephants arrived with grain, so that I have every prospect of being fairly on my way in a day or two.  Nothing worth seeing has occurred, except a man who by some accident had the lobe of his ear torn, and had the fragments stitched together with silver wire.

Oct. 31st.—­Halted at the Laee-panee, and gathered an Oberonea, and specimens of fish. {29b}

Nov. 1st.—­Dirty weather; rain looking much as if it were going to continue for several days.  There is a small drupaceous fruit found here and at Beesa, the Singfo name of which is Let-tan-shee; it is the produce of a large tree probably the fruit of a Chrysobalanus, testibus stylo laterali, stam, perigynis:  cotyledonibus crispatis.  The flavour is acid, rather pleasant, and somewhat terebinthinaceous.

Nov. 2nd.—­I thought it best to set off, although it was raining heavily.  Our course lay in an E. direction up the Karam for about two hours, when it diverged:  it thence after passing through some heavy jungle continued up the steep bed of the now dry Dailoom; it next diverged again about 2 P.M., when we ascended a small hill; it continued thence through heavy jungle chiefly bamboo, until we descended in an oblique manner on the Laee-panee, about a mile up which we found our halting place.  The whole march occupied, including a few halts, seven hours; and as the pace was pretty good for six full hours, I compute the distance to be about fifteen miles.  Hill Flora recommenced in the bamboo jungle; two fine species of Impatiens and several Urticeae making their appearance; Camellia axillaris and some fine Acanthacea:  the best plant was a species of Aristolochea.  The latter part of the day was fine, and the elephants with grain from Suddiyah arrived.