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Extract of a letter from J. ELLERTON Srocks, M.D., F.L.S., &e., £s- 
sistant-Surgeon on the Bombay Establishment, Inspector of Forests in 
Scinde ; dated : 
Kurrachee, 6th of July, 1850. 
My second Beloochistan trip has been interesting enough, and I 
shall be able to send you three hundred plants not previously seen by 
me, which, with two hundred sent formerly, will make five hundred for 
the Beloochistan Flora as yet observed. Of course a resident in the 
country would double this number; but this is as much as could be 
expected from flying visits. Nor need I grumble, for I have just got, 
in three mouths’ easy work, what it took me more than three years to 
gather in Scinde Proper. But I had expected six hundred species 
from this last trip alone. You will have many of Griffith’s plants, 
though better specimens, inasmuch as Griffith was cramped by moving 
with an army through a hostile country, where it was madness to stir 
two hundred yards from camp. Hence, he had to depend on collec- 
tors, besides having only scanty carriage at command. Seeds, roots, 
bulbs, gums, fruits, and specimens of woods, will accompany the dried 
specimens; and I think you will find some of the seeds and bulbs to 
produce really pretty plants. 
If you will follow me in the map prefixed to Thornton’s Gazetteer 
of the N.W. countries, you will see I traversed plenty of ground. 
From Shikarpoor to Gundava (300 feet), and thence by the sweep of 
the Gundava pass (Peer Chutta, Kohoo, Nurd, &e.) to Peeshee Bhent, 
3,300 feet above the sea. Thence, leaving the pass, to the open plains 
of Zehree, 5,000 feet, where the Brahnico-Affghan vegetation began, and 
thence through Nograma, Panduran, and Nichara, to Kelat. Thence to 
Zyrant, Ghurruk, Pundee, Zurud (all these names are thus abominably 
mangled on the map), and thence three marches direct west towards 
Nooshky, on a pilgrimage in search of the Assafcetida plant. Having. 
made prize of a sufficiently odoriferous Ferula, which “if not Bran, 
is Bran’s brother,” I sloped off N.E. to Kunuk and Karez, above 
Moostung in the map, and just below the parallel 309. Here I as- 
cended Chehel Tun, which is the elongated mountain between Karez 
and Siriab. Thence to Burg, Ispunglee, Quetta. Thence, retracing 
my steps, to Siriab, Teeree, and Moostung. Thence, a détour, through 
Ispinjlee, Johan, and Kishan, on the Rodbahar route from the Bolan 
Pass to Kelat. From Kelat homewards to Kurrachee, by Rodinjo, 
