About eight miles south of the village is a stream, crossed by a bridge, half of which is formed of slabs of stone (of which one is twenty-one feet long, seven broad, and two feet three and a half inches thick), supported on piers, and the rest is a well turned arch, such as I have not seen elsewhere among the hill tribes of India. It is fast crumbling away, and is covered with tropical plants, and a beautiful white-flowered orchis* [_Diplomeris; Apostasia_ also grew in this gulley, with a small _Arundina,_ some beautiful species of _Sonerila,_ and _Argostemma._ The neighbourhood was very rich in plants.] grew in the mossy crevices of its stones. From Amwee our route lay north-east across the Jyntea hills to Joowye, the hill-capital of the district. The path gradually ascended, dipping into valleys scooped out in the horizontal sandstone down to the basalt; and boulders of the same rock were scattered about. Fields of rice occupy the bottoms of these valleys, in which were placed gigantic images of men, dressed in rags, and armed with bows and arrows, to scare away the wild elephants! Slate rocks succeed the sandstone (strike north-east, dip north-west), and with them pines and birch appear, clothing the deep flanks of the Mintadoong valley, which we crossed. The situation of Joowye is extremely beautiful: it occupies the broken wooded slope of a large open flat valley, dotted with pines; and consists of an immense number of low thatched cottages, scattered amongst groves of bamboo, and fields of plantain, tobacco, yams, sugar-cane, maize, and rice, surrounded by hedges of bamboo, _Colquhounia,_ and _Erythrina._ Narrow steep lanes lead amongst these, shaded with oak, birch, _Podocarpus,_ Camellia, and _Araliaceae_; the larger trees being covered with orchids, climbing palms, _Pothos, Scindapsus,_ pepper, and _Gnetum_; while masses of beautiful red and violet balsams grew under every hedge and rock. The latter was of sandstone, overlying highly inclined schists, and afforded magnificent blocks for the natives to rear on end, or make seats of. Some erect stones on a hill at the entrance are immensely large, and surround a clump of fine fig and banyan trees.* [In some tanks we found _Hydropeltis,_ an American and Australian plant allied to _Nymphaea._ Mr. Griffith first detected it here, and afterwards in Bhotan, these being the only known habitats for it in the Old World. It grows with _Typha, Acorus Calamus_ (sweet flag), _Vallisneria, Potamogeton, Sparganium,_ and other European water-plants.]