Nov. 29th.—­Reached Laee Panee after a march of five hours; and without Assamese coolies, it might be done in three.  I noticed below Deeling, but still at a considerable elevation, Crawfurdia campanu lacea, Adamea, Engelhardtia, Vitex speciosa, and Magnolia in the order in which they are thus given, Quercus, cupulis echinatis occurs comparatively low down, Castanea ferox still lower, Dracaena comes into view towards the base.  At the village first reached in the ascent there is a Meliaceous Azedarach looking tree.

At our old halting place, and which is near Deeling, another Ahum-metta Ghas was shewn me.  This attains, I am told, a large size:  it is not very unlike in habit a Melanorrhaea, and its young leaves are tinged with red, the mature ones are coriaceous.  I have not seen it in flower; the juice, at least from small branches, is not very abundant, and at first is of a whitish colour; it is, on dit, after drying that it assumes the black tint; at any rate it is excessively acrid, for one of my servants who cut it incautiously, had his face spoilt for a time:  the swelling even after four days had elapsed was considerable.  With this as well as the Rhus they dye the strings of the simple fibres of Sawar, which they all wear below the knee:  if not properly dried these strings cause some inflammation:  the strings are ornamental, light, and when worn in small numbers graceful, but when dozens are employed, and all the upper ones loose, they deform the figure much; some of the women, perhaps anxious to restrain the protuberance of their calves, tie two or three lightly across the calf.

At Nohun, near Deeling, Cocoloba aculeata, baccis cyaneis occurs here the same as at Mumbree in the Cossiya hills, and at Suddiya.

Nov. 30th.—­Halted.  Put all the grain into the Tapan Gam’s hands, amounting to 60 maunds.  In the evening received as a present a long sword from Premsong.  Found a fine Impatiens and a shrub coming into flower, Calyce aestiv. valvato?  Stamen 4, connectivo ultra antheras longe producto, ovarium adnatum, foliis oppositis, exstipulatis.  Meyenia coccinea, finely in flower.  An arborescent Urticea (Baehmeria?) foliis subtus candidis is common.

Dec. 1st.—­Reached the Tapan Gam’s after a sharp march of four hours.  We are not yet quite at the foot of the hills.  Gathered en route 4 new Acanthaceae, not previously met with on this trip, among which is a beautiful Eranthemum.  At Laee Panee one of my people brought me a fine Aristolochia, very nearly allied to that from Ghaloom’s, but at once distinct by its ferruginous pubescence, Antrophyum, and a Polypodium not before met with were among the acquisitions.  The Tapan Gam has behaved very handsomely for a Mishmee, having killed a hog, and given five kuchoos of beautiful rice, and feasted my people.  Found two snakes, which inhabit the inside of bamboos.  Color superne brunneo-cinereus, margines squamarum nigri, gula nigra, fascicula subtus antea alba, postice lutescens.