FLORA OF THE JHELUM DISTRICT OF THE PUNJAB. 55 
Puats VIII. 
Dichelyma uncinatum. 
1, plant, natural size. 
2, leaf; 3, perichzetium and capsule 4, portion of peristome: STE 
Atrichum parallelum. 
1, plant, natural size. 
2, leaf from the lower part; 3, the same from upper part of the stem; 
4, transverse section of the middle of the latter; 5, perichztial leaf: all 
magnified. 
Oligotrichum aligerum. 
1, plant, natural size. 
2, a leaf from the middle of the stem; 3, perichzetial leaf; 4, perigonial 
leaf; 5, calyptra: all magnified. : 
Polytrichadelphus Lyallii. 
1, plant, natural size. 
2, leaf from the middle of the stem, with section ; 3, perichzetial leaf; 4, cap- 
sule; 5, section of same ; 6, calyptra: all magnified. 
Flora of the Jhelum District 9f the Punjab. By J. E. TrzaNEY 
Arrcuisax, M.D., F.L.S. 
[Read December 17, 1863.] 
Tue following paper, which I have the honour to lay before the 
Society, is the result of observations made in the Jhelum District 
during the years 1859, 1860, and 1861, whilst acting as Civil 
Assistant-Surgeon in that district. The opportunities for botanical 
research throughout the district were not very numerous, from my 
medical duties requiring my presence at the headquarters ofthe 
district, viz. at the town of Jhelum; and when they did occur, it 
was generally not at a good season for the botanist. However, with 
the exception perhaps of that part of the Salt Range included in 
the district, the flora may be considered as tolerably complete, 
From the position of the district of Jhelum—close to the base 
of the hills that surround Cashmere on the one hand, and on the 
other gradually extending in a south-westerly direction towards thé 
Sind-Sagur and Jetch Dooabs, towards Edgeworth’s Country—it 
forms a link of union between the Mooltan and Cashmere floras, 
the altitude of Mount Tilla and of the Salt Range giving us some 
of the botany to be met with on the lower range of the Himalaya. 
The Jhelum District is bounded on the south by the river 
Jhelum, on the south-east by the Kharian hills, on the east and 
north-east by the bend of the Jhelum river (which is here the 
boundary between the British and Cashmere territories), on the 
north by the ravine-country of the Rawul Pindee district, and on 
