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aud very characteristic, are Desmodium tiliafolium, aud Mucuna 

 pruriens. . 



AV^liere the Naree hills break up into plateaux and ravines 

 towards the Beas, on their western extremity, they are covered 

 ^\ ith a forest consisting nearly entirely of Bamhusa^ which is 

 much resorted to for the feeding of sheep. 



Throughout these hills a larger amount of land is cultivated 

 tliau one at first is led to expect. 



In gardens, or, rather, near dwellings, a peculiar kind of lemon, 

 called '' Gulgul," is in great abundance. 



The Dhuu of the Sohan rivers has rich alluvial deposits 

 throughout it, and hence is well cultivated. In addition to the 

 usual cereals and sugar-cane, we have maize, rice, and Crotalaria 

 juncca^ — the last very extensively. American varieties of cotton 

 ^ have of late been introduced. The millets are little cultivated. 

 Fhoenix sylvestrish very common. JButea^\\\t\\ Saccharuni munja 

 and spontaneum^ cover large tracts of waste land, amongst which 

 occasional fine trees of Cordia and Bomhax occur. 



A natural wood, called '^ GuCTate Greeree/* exists on the 

 northern side of the Dhun, at an elevation of about 1300 feet ; and 

 in it are to be found some of the finest specimens of Finns longi- 

 folia in the district; and in addition to most of the trees already 

 mentioned, we here have Feronia elephantum^ Celtis australis, 

 Budelia, Sponia, Ccesalpinia sepinana, Dioscoria in great abun- 

 dance, Fwdalacan fines, besides the eastern types Ficits cordi- 

 Jblicij ^ylosma longifoliitm^ Engelhardtia, and Hiptage madahlota. 



In tlie Grarden at Umb, which is in the Dhun, are some 

 splendid trees of Morns, aud Platanus orientalis. Tlie AV^alnut 

 has here borne fruit, and so also, it is said, the Apricot, which is 

 rare in the Purwain range ; but the trees of the last I did not see. 



Tuhpa stellata is not uncommon in the fields of the Dhun. 



The Purwain range, above 1500 feet, is covered with a large 

 forest of Finns longifolia ; but about the middle of the rauge this 

 form changes, and we gradually find a forest of Shorea rolusta 

 taking its place, mixed up with trees of Tenninalia hellerica and 

 cJiehula, and Bomlax, all showing splendid timber, besides Wr 

 chelia, Kydia, Fentaptera, Engelhardtia, Jlymenodicfyon, Nauclea, 

 Fassia, Fhretia serrata, Bradleia, Fl<Bodendron, and JEchman- 

 thera — this forest constituting that which is usually found at 

 the base of the Himalaya, between the mountains and the plains. 

 Here we have the western limit of the !Sal (Shorea), 



