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wards to Seratigah along the whole range and spurs at the above 

 altitude. To it is given the name " Nuhktar," a term applied to 

 Pinus longifolia further west, of which I have not seen a single 

 specimen. Prom Kohat via Thai to Seratigah. 



113. Pinus Gerardiana, Wall. 



A very handsome tree that does not branch as pines usually do, 

 the trunk and branches being more like those of a well-formed oak. 

 It is easily recognized at a distance by its nearly white ash-grey 

 bark, which on close examination is seen not to be of one colour, 

 but consists of patches of all tints, from light green to autumnal 

 reds and brown ; this is due to the peculiar way the bark exfoliates. 

 It occurs from 7000 to 11,000 feet in the Hariab district, but is 

 unknown in the Kuram district, or as far north as the Pewarkotal, 

 or its union with the base of Sikaram. It is a common pine in 

 Kost. The nuts are a large article of diet amongst the villagers 

 of the district in which the pine grows, and a luxury in N.W. 

 India. The Kuram valley heretofore has not exported the nuts ; 

 those that reached Kohat were chiefly from the Kost country. 



127. Cedrns Deodara, Roxb. 



A superb forest-tree from 7500 to 10,000 feet. Commences at 

 the Spinghao stream and covers the hills to the west of this, none, 

 as far as I have seen, to the east, except an occasional tree in 

 the Grandhao stream. I measured a tree 22 feet in circumfer- 

 ence that must have been fully 150 feet high. It is curious to 

 note that trees here all more or less run to trunk ; the branches 

 scarcely afford timber at all ; and this is specially remarkable in 

 the Hazardarakht river, where the branches are extremely short 

 and very small in calibre. 



1/0, 785. Abies Smithiana, Wall. 



A large tree, from 8000 to 10,000 feet, sometimes up to nearly 

 12,000 feet, struggling with Pinus excelsa for existence. Through- 

 out the whole of the forests from the Kuram district to Seratigah ; 

 but in the Hariab district, where it is extremely dry, it occurs 

 rather more commonly at 9000 to 11,000 feet. 



172. A. Webbiana, Wall. 



A fine tree, at 8000 to 11,000 feet, in the forests of the Kuram 

 and Hariab districts ; usually restricted to the ridges of the hills, 

 always so in the Hariab district. 



