e preparations for defence, and had set on
foot a custom house. We saw a good many boats passing up, all evidently
containing families moving away from their villages.

In this Kioukdweng a fine Palm exists, which I have never seen before.
Caudex 10-15 pedalis, crassa, petiolorum basibus processibus vestitis,
frondibus pinnatis, 10 pedalibus, pinnis ensifornibus 2 to 2.5 pedalibus,
subtus glaucis, diametro 1.5 uncialibus, basi valde obliquis, bilobis!
lobo inferiore maximo, decurrenti, uninervi: floribus in spadicibus
nutanti-curvatis, amplis, basi spathaceis spicato-paniculatis. Florib.
masculis polyandris.

Petiol. bases cretosae, intus processubus atris, subulatis, longissimis
robustis quasi panicillatis.

Habitus quodammodo Wallichiae. Hab. in Umbrosissimis.

An arbuscula Anonacea, floribus dioicis, Mas. corollae petalis apice
valvatim cohaerentibus, basi apertis, potius distantibus, Ovariis (faem)
pedicellatis, also occurred.

Fructus elliptico-oblongus, subuncialis, hinc a basi ad styli punctum
linea tenui exsculptus, unilocularis, unisporus. Endocarp, ac testa
viscoso-gelatinosa. Testa ac tegumen intera membr. chartacea. Albumen
copiosum hinc et suturae fructus oppositae, profundius exarat. sectione
transversa-reniformi. Carnoso albumeni germen secus sulcum affixium.
Embryo in axi albuminis, radicul super. Cotyledones foliaceae, albae,
amplae, curvat seminis sequentes: suturae placental, oppositae. Ejusdem
generis cum Menispermea: in sylvis Singfoensibus cum Wallichia: vide
Icones.

Arrived at Kioukgyee at 5 P.M. Waited on and dined with the Meewoon, who
is a gentlemanly, spare, lively man with grey hair. Dinner was good, and
clean. Preserved dried jujubes from China, as well as some preserved by
himself were very good. Kioukgyee is on the right bank of the river,
which is here undivided by islands, and about 1200 yards broad. Just
above the town there are some rocks. The number of houses is about
eighty-five, most of them arranged in a broad street running along the
river, and the best that I have seen for some time.

The village is surrounded by a new and wretched stockade, the outskirts
being fenced or _pangaed_; the people are on the qui vive, and the whole
village seems to be in a constant state of alarm. All the jungle
immediately adjoining the town is cut down; many of the houses are
unroofed, and all the gates are guarded. Visited this morning the lines
occupied by the attacking f