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very gradual and projecting far from the steeper parts, the Pistachia- 
trees growing very fine and luxuriant, give almost a forest character to 
the scenery. Associated with them are the Ash, Daphne, and Wild Olive. 
3. Very peculiar was the aspect of the vale of Johan, where only (nor 
could the natives say positively that it is to be seen elsewhere) I found the 
Myrtle, forming all over the valley small groves or thickets, close-set 
and entangled, delightful from the dark-green hue and fragrant smell 
oftheleaves. 4. The vegetation of the Cora, with Pheasant's Eye, 
Blue-bottle, Corn-Poppy, Venus's Comb, Leontice, and Bongardia ; and 
the rank herbage of the little brooks, such as Willow-herb, Mint, 
Brooklime, Celery, with Myriophyllum, Chara, Potamogeton, and Sium, 
were striking, indeed, and peculiar, but do not occur sufficiently in 
mass to influence the landscape. 
Distinct from this (* Griffith's Province") is the vegetation of the 
passes, bare rocks, open valleys, and lower hills, from 5,000 feet down- 
wards, which Griffith saw in the Bolan and Khyber passes, and which 
I have noticed in the Gundava, Rohill, and Hurbab passes, in the Rodba- 
har valleys, in the road from Wudd to Bela, which includes the short 
pass called Barun Luk, and along the desolate Kafila route from Kur- 
rachee to Khozdar in Lower Beloochistan. Boucerosia Aucheri, Cap- 
paris aphylla, Tecoma undulata, Periploca aphylla, Convolvulus spinosus, 
Lycium Europeum, Acanthodium spicatum, Prosopis spicigera, Rhazya 
stricta, Puneeria coagulans, Indigofera pauciflora, Zizyphus Jujuba, 
Grewie, Salvadora oleoides, Ochradenus baccatus, Calotropis procera, 
. Caragana polyacantha, Catha, Vitex bicolor, Gaillonia eriantha and ky- 
menostephana, Physalis somnifera, and Achyranthes lanata, are the never- - 
failing characteristic plants, while EupAorbia neriifolia and Chamerops 
Ritchiana, though natives of this region, yet fail unaccountably over 
Whole tracts of country. Thus the Euphorbia neriifolia is only found 
in the districts which pour their waters into the Hubb and Pooralee 
rivers, and the Chamerops only in the districts of the Hubb, Pooralee, 
and Gaj rivers, Neither is found in the Bolan or the Moola (4.e., 
Gundava) Passes, which is curious. 
The two vegetations here noticed, though distinct enough at 5,500 
and 4,000 feet respectively, yet intermix between 5,000 and 4,500 
feet. The plants of the lower region which ascend the highest are 
Otostegia Aucheri and Pycnotheca spinosa, Those of the higher 
region which descend lowest are Ebenus stellata, a Dipsacus, a pretty 
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