112 A large bush forms an irrigation stream for the fields. When I was there in September the trees (lemon, orange etc) were green with foliage but now they are bare. A tree is just blooming -- a pink flamed plum tree but the flower are longtuticular + not much like the white plum blossoms of our fruit trees. The leaves are developed already + quite cherry-like. This is my first evidence of Spring. 5 The night was fairly comfortable, network evident frost. The traps carried more Padagora minutus + a large white bellied rat allied to Epinops, Melbourne camp & travelled into Talifin. The day was clear + warm & many travellers were on the road going north. The rice fields were brown with stubble, except those planted to Sophoraceae.