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brown-coloured inflated utricles. Eremurus persicus covers large 
areas on the low hills between Bostan and Yaru Karez, also at 
Peshin; E. velutinus, a species that I did not find in the Quetta 
valley, being also locally abundant at the latter place. Iris falci- 
folia, with smoky-purple flowers, is common about Yaru Karez; 
and another Zris (no. 3593), with very long flower-stalks, growing 
in dense clumps with coir-like fibres surrounding the root-stocks, 
is very abundant in sandy soil at Peshin. Tulipa montana, having 
extremely handsome, deep red flowers, is most conspicuous on 
certain hills up to 6500 feet, and so is the small Fritillaria 
Kareliniz. 
Othonnopsis intermedia occurs gregariously, and Calligonum 
polygonoides is common, while in the driest ravines are often 
seen straggling bushes of Lycium barbarum, called by the natives 
“ Karghanna," the name they also give to Stocksia brahuica, 
the latter only occurring under the hills at the S.E. corner of 
the valley. Zygophyllum atriplicoides, a shrub with green-winged 
fruits, is found in a few places, and is most abundant in stony 
ravines about Kach at 6500 ft. A Cousinia (=Stocks 930, and 
Griffith 3323) is another of the gregarious plants characteristic 
of the east end of the valley ; C. bipinnata is generally abundant, 
and its leaves are considered excellent fodder for horses. 
In the Surkhäb valley, a few miles due E. of Peshin, a variety 
of Clematis orientalis grows on the tamarisk bushes. The 
flowers are generally solitary, with long slender axillary-jointed 
peduncles, which sometimes produce a lateral flower ; and the 
leaves are often pinnately decompound, with narrow linear seg- 
ments, occasionally toothed. 
Most of the grasses in the valley are annuals, and several 
species of Bromus, Poa, and Hordeum are abundant ; while 
Cynodon Dactylon only occurs on the banks of irrigation channels, 
near water or on cultivated land. 
The Khwaja Amrän range lies on the west side of the Peshin 
valley. It is composed chiefly of shales, and is dotted with trees 
of Pistacia mutica, var. cabulica, which are chiefly abundant in 
the stony beds of the numerous ravines. Tulipa montana, 
T. chrysantha, and Iris ensata are the most striking plants on 
these hills; and Draba Hystrix, a species that I have not found 
elsewhere, occurs in small clumps. A species of Lonicera was 
found near the top of the Khojak Pass, but no specimens were 
obtained in flower or fruit ; bushes of Prunus eburnea, Caragana, 
