Sunday, 13th.—­Arrived at Shiraz-gunge, about half-past 8 A.M., from which place the people say Jumalpore is a three days’ journey.  The country through which we proceeded after leaving Shiraz-gunge is nothing but a net-work of rivers, several of vast size, and low islands, occupied almost exclusively by Saccharum spontaneum, and in some places abounding in Typha elephantina, in fruit.  We halted at a small village in the evening, where we procured Centrostachys aquatica.

September 14th.—­Came in sight of distant very elevated land, which we suppose to be the Kassiya Hills.  This morning (15th) the Hills are very plain, and bear nearly due north.  The country through which we passed yesterday presented no change whatever. Andropogon muricatus has now nearly left us; but the Saccharum reaches to a large size, and is incredibly abundant.  The natives use it for thatching their huts.  We were visited by a heavy squall in the evening.

16th.—­Strong winds from an easterly direction.  About noon we succeeded in reaching a creek, in which we are completely sheltered.  During our route here, we were employed in examining a new species of Crotalaria, and one of Mitrasacme!  In pools close to us are Damasonium indicum, Nymphaea caerulea, Myriophyllum tetrandrum, Polygonum rivulare, and a species of Villarsia, V. cristata.

19th.—­Left the creek, and arrived at Jumalpore about 2 P.M.; the cantonment of which occupies the right-hand side of the Burrampooter, along the bank of which the officers’ houses are situated; indeed this is the only dry line about the place, as immediately inland there are nothing but jheels and rice fields.  Jumalpore is about .75 of a mile from the junction of the Jenai with the Burrampooter or rather from the point of exit of the former river.

24th.—­We left the cantonment about 11 A.M., and proceeded down the Burrampooter, which is a very uninteresting river, and appears more like a net-work of water and sand banks; opposite Jumalpore, the banks are about a mile apart, but the distance between the extreme banks, leaving the island opposite the cantonment out of the question, is much more.  During the dry weather this part of the river is passable, and indeed is in some places nothing but a dry bed of sand, so that people walk across it.  During our stay at the above place we met with many interesting and new plants, among which a new species of Villarsia occupied the most prominent place. Cyperaceae, Gramineae, and aquatic Scrophularineae abound. Solanum spirale occurs in abundance, and the trees commence to be clothed with ferns.  I observed only one Epiphytica Orchidea, probably an Aerides.

The banks consist hitherto of nothing but sand, covered with Saccharum spontaneum. Andropogon muricatus is scarcely to be met with.