. Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and the neighbouring countries . m Rangagurrah a small rivulet, a tributary of the Deboroo; noplants but one of much interest was detected en route. That onewas a fine forest tree affecting damp low places, apparently very limit-ed in extent. It is a new genus, belonging to Hamemelidese, and wehave called it Sedgwickia cerasifolia. On our arrival at Rangagurrahwe were met by the Burra-seena Puttee, 1 Big warrior, who escortedus to the houses he had caused to be erected for us, and which wereat a little distance from the village itself
. Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and the neighbouring countries . m Rangagurrah a small rivulet, a tributary of the Deboroo; noplants but one of much interest was detected en route. That onewas a fine forest tree affecting damp low places, apparently very limit-ed in extent. It is a new genus, belonging to Hamemelidese, and wehave called it Sedgwickia cerasifolia. On our arrival at Rangagurrahwe were met by the Burra-seena Puttee, 1 Big warrior, who escortedus to the houses he had caused to be erected for us, and which wereat a little distance from the village itself. During our association withhim or with his country, he was remarkably attentive and civil, andas he is an independent man he pleased me much. On the — Feb. wereached Tingrei, a poor village about ten miles to the S. E. of Ran-gagurrah, situated on the west bank of the rivulet of the same name,another tributary of the Deboroo. On the same morning as the marchwas very short, we proceeded to examine the tea, and the followingday was likewise given up to another examination. The tea here. WILD TEA. 19 may be characterised as dwarf, no stems that I saw exceeding fifteenfeet in height; it had just past flowering. It occurs in great abun-dance, and to much greater extent than in any of the places at whichwe had previously examined it. But here it is neither limited by pe-culiarity of soil or such slight elevation as the place affords ; it growsindiscriminately on the higher ground where the soil is of a brownishyellow, and on which it attains a larger size than elsewhere, or on clumpoccurring in low raviny ground and associated with fine ground was intersected by a very tortuous dry nullah bed, on thebanks of which tea was very abundant. On either side of the jungle inwhich it is found, extensive clearings occur, so that it is impossible tosay what its original extent may have been; I am inclined to think,however that its limit was with the commencement of a small cle
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