Flora: orchids, 32; arums, 34; palms, 37; climbing plants, 37; ferns, 38; tangèna, 38; sago palms, 41; _Filào_, 41; _Brehmia spinosa_, 42; _Hibiscus_, 42; _Stephanotis_, 42; _Ipomæa_, 42; pitcher-plant, 42; gum-copal, 42; india-rubber, 42; bamboo, sugar-cane, manioc, banana, palms, pandanus, water-lilies, palms, convolvuli, traveller’s tree, 49; raspberries, 51; coffee, 51; lace-leaf plant, 53; bamboo, 57; tree-ferns, 57; pine-apples, 57; _rofìa_-palm, 58; ferns, 59; euphorbias, 60; orchids, 64; bamboo, 65; rice, 79; Cape lilac, 81; vine, 81; euphorbia, 81; orchids, 101; indigenous plants, 127; ferns, orchids, 128; grasses and ferns, 128; palms, 142; climbing plants, 142; cryptogamic vegetation, 143; mosses and lichens, 143; fungi, 144; spiny plants, 145; stinging plants, 146; ferns, 157; valuable trees, 158; Tamarind-trees, 295 Flowers, comparative scarcity of, 64 Fly-catchers, 295 Food, curious articles of, 106 Food, articles of, 23 Forest, stillness of the, 60, 65, 277 Fòsa, the, 302 Fosses, 119 Fossils, 212 Foundry, native, 156 Fragrance of wild plants, 178 French invasion, the, 28 Frigate-birds, 255 Frogs, 152 Fruit-bats, 298 Funeral, a heathenish, 276 Funeral memorial, a, 268 Funerals, expensive, 203 Fungi, 144 Furniture, 98 Games, 122 Gates of stone, 119 Geese, 186 “General Hàzo” and “General Tàzo,” 28 Geological formations, quartz, red sandstone, 39, 53 Goat-sucker, the, 140 Goudot, M., 91 Grainge, Mr, and the cattle, 287 Granaries, 54 Grandidier, Alfred, 17, 169, 235 Grasses and rushes, 128, 178, 191, 201, 206 Grass, firing the, 72, 73 “Grave of the French,” 42 Guinea-fowl, 186 Gum-copal tree, 37, 42 Gums and resins, 158 Hail, 86 Hair-dressing, 252, 258 _Hàmby_, the, 311 _Hapalemur simus_, 243 Hawks, 84 _Hàzondràno_, or rush, 108 Hearth, the, 97 _Hèrana_, the, 108 Herons, 69, 312 _Hibiscus_, 42 _Hibiscus diversifolius_, 90 Hills, outline of, 52 Hippopotamus, extinct, 212 Hippopotamus Lemerlei, 212 Hivòndrona, 32 Hoar-frost, 113 Hooker, Sir W. J., 54 Horned memorial poles, 182 Hospitality of the Malagasy, 41 Hot springs, 53 Houlder, Mr, and the boa, 44 Houses, native, 23, 70, 236 “House-horns,” 97 Hovas, 299 Humped duck, 186 Iàboràno, 268 Iàritsèna, 232 Iatsìfitra volcano, 224 Ice, 92 Ifànja marsh, 225 Ifòdy Hills, 69 Ihàroka river, 45, 48 Ihòvana, chieftainess, 282 Ikòngo, 235 Ikòpa river, 76, 286, 291 Imàhazòny, 236 Imèrina, 71 India-rubber, 42, 158 Indigenous plants, 128 Insect life, 65, 279 Insectivora, species of, 67