learing, the plants are exposed to moderate sun; it is perhaps to this
that the great abundance of flowers is to be attributed. The soil, now
quite dry at the surface, is of a cinereous grey; about a foot below it
is brown, which passes, as you proceed, into deeper yellow; about four
feet deep, it passes into sand. No ravines exist, and mounds only do
about a few of the larger trees. The soil as usual is light, friable,
easily reduced to powder, and has a very slight tendency to stiffness.

_Dec_. _13th_.--Left for the Muttack: our course lay through dense
jungle, principally of bamboo, and along the paths of wild elephants;
these beasts are here very common. We halted after a march of seven
hours on a small bank of the Deboro; the only plant of interest was my
Cyananthus in flower.

_Dec_. _14th_.--Continued through similar jungle along the Deboro; bamboo
more frequent. About 2 P.M. we left the undulating hillocks, and the
jungle became more open. At 4, we reached Muttack, but had still to
traverse a considerable distance before we halted at Kolea Panee. We
crossed the Deboro _en route_; no particular plant was met with. I
shot two large serpents, _Pythons_; one 8, and the other 10 feet long.
The Kolea Panee is of some width, but is fordable.

_Dec_. _15th_.--After marching for about seven hours, halted at a small
village. The country passed over was, like most of this part of Muttack,
open, consisting of a rather high plain covered with grasses, T. sperata,
Saccharum, and Erianthus, with here and there very swampy ravines; the
soil is almost entirely sandy, light at the surface; the yellow tint
increasing with the depth, which is considerable. Crossed the Deboro by
a rude wooden bridge. I found no particular plants _en route_.

_Dec_. _16th_.--Reached Rangagurrah, after a march of about an hour: and
halted for the day.

_Dec_. _18th_.--Started to visit Sedgwickia at the wood, where we found
it in February last. Reached the spot, which is at least ten miles from
Rangagurrah, in two hours and a half. The trees had evidently not
flowered last year; many of the buds were of some size, and such
contained flower buds, each capitula being in addition enveloped in three
bracteae densely beset with brown hair. The natives assured me, it will
flower about April, or at the sowing of _halee_. When we before found
it, the buds were all leaf buds, which at once accounts for the
non-appearance of flowers. Gathere