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Rhizophora gymmohiza, Manglo and conjugata etc.
On returning we had heavy rain and on the road we met many natives with the leaves of the Arum macrorrhizon, which they used in lieu of Umbrella's and we procured one for an apron to Our Bandy - which was quite large enough for the purpose, we arrived at Cattura about 7 o Clock in the evening.
B.G. Cattura The weather has been very fine during this and cooler than last month; For several days the Thermometer stood below 70 at six o Clock A. M. and never but once so low as 61: at Noon it varied little from it was last month but about three P. M. it generally rose a few degrees higher. Heavy rain on the evenings of the 5th. 6th. 7th. and 8th. and fine dry weather the rest of the month, with heavy dew in the mornings.
The Garden possesses several very fine large trees of the Jungle Mango "Atamba Gaha" which is at present beautifully in flower. The flower has a resinous smell similar to the fruit and attracts a great number of Honey Bees; at some distance it bears a great resemblance to the Hawthorn tree or May flower and from the cool state of the weather the mornings have much the same appearance as the month of May in England -
I have examined many of the flowers of this tree as well as the cultivated sort of Mangoe and found them to have only one perfect Stamen but the origin of one or two more are to be met with in some flowers the petals also vary from 4-5 leaves but the natural appearance of the flower retains it in Pentandria Monogynia.
Placed in the Linnoean ground the Jasminum undulatum and angustifolium which were brought from the Jungle and two varieties of Justicia picta a Green leaved and a painted one, also a new and doubtfull species of Gratiola which for the present I put down in the Garden list for G. Juncea together with Gratiola oppositifolia and trifida and also