304 DR. STOCKS’ JOURNEY INTO BELOOCHISTAN. 
Sohrab, the Zawa Pass (where ended the upper vegetation), Khoz- 
dar, Wudd, Bela, and Sonmeanee. 
From Shikarpoor to Kurrachee, between the 18th of March and 
25th of June, I made sixty-eight marches, and got over six hundred 
and sixty miles of ground with great satisfaction, though laid up regu- 
larly every fortnight, and sometimes in the intervals, with the attacks 
of the demon ague, which has never left me since I made my first raid 
into Belóochistan in 1849. 
To speak roughly, the collection will chiefly illustrate the Flora of 
the parallelogram bounded N. and 8. by the parallels of latitude 28° 
and 30°, and E. and W. by the meridians 66? and 67°; in which 
space the plains are generally from 5,000 to 5,500 feet supra mare, 
though occasionally, as at Kelat and Kapota, rising to 6,500 and 7,000 
feet respectively. The Boundary-hills rise 500 to 1,000 feet above 
the plains; and the giant Chehel Tun, 5,000 feet above the plain, or 
10,500 above the sea, had, at the time of my visit (May 4th), its peak 
streaked (as with written characters) by deposits of snow in its N. and 
N.W. ravines. In this space is seen the perfect or fully-developed 
Brahnico-Affghan flora, marked by vast plains (generally long and 
narrow ; the boundary hills running parallel at a distance of two or 
three miles) covered by Wormwood, among which, in the spring, Tulips, 
Fritillaries, Anemone, Delphinium, and Iris, with small Boraginee, Cruci- 
Jere, Composite, and Leguminose, spring up quickly and wither incon- 
tinent ; while, on the lower hills and along their bases, gummy Feruloid 
Umbellifere, Rhubarb, Acantholimon, Acanthophyllum, Salvia, Perowskie, 
— Amygdali, Ephedra, Pistachia, Daphne, Fravinus, Ebenus, Spirea, Jauber- 
— tia, Gentiana, Onosma, Paracaryum, Arnebia, Eremostachys, Convolvulus, 
Campanula, Hurmul, Haplophyllum, Linum, and such like occur, with the 
Juniper, the Sweet-briar Rose, and the “ Forget-me-not,” marking the 
higher elevations. : 
. But, although the most common and characteristic vegetation 
may be seen in the vast and monotonous plains of Artemisia, yet, 
in peculiar localities, other plants and a different arrangement of the 
Flora give diversity to the scenery. 1. There are, towards Pesheen, 
salt-plains cut up by steep-banked watercourses fringed with Tamarisks, 
which trees, as well as the surface vegetation of Salsola, Arenaria rubra, 
Nitraria, Halocharis, Crypsis, Tetradichlys, give evidence as to the soil, 
even were that not covered by snow-like patches of salt, crisp underfoot, 
and hurtful to the eyes. 2. On the slopes of the higher mountains, often 
