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278 EDGEWORTH'S ACCOUNT OF THE SIKH STATES. 
tonii, with Cucumis pseudo-colocynthis and a species of Momor- — 
dica, also luxuriate on those barren heaps; together with a 
Clerodendron, the wood of which is used for obtaining fire by - 
friction; and two kinds of Zizyphus, %. jujuba, and another, 
v I believe to this tract of country, with smooth glosy 
leaves and globular purple fruit. 
**The most abundant thorn however is the Jhand, Prosopis 
spicigera,* which covers barren spots as the Zizyphus does in 
other parts of India, as a low shrub; but it is also met with as 
4 small tree mixed with the phalahi and rerul (I believe Aca- 
cia leucophea), which last, as well as the Jhand, are utterly 
useless except for fuel. 
“The dhak ( Butea frondosa ) and the hins ( Cappiră sepi- 
aria) are almost unknown, while Capparis aphylla grows to 
the size of a small tree, and in the month of April its scar- 
let flowers have a showy appearance mixed with the white 
blossoms of the phalahi. The rahere ( Bignonia undulata) is 
found not uncommonly and is very brilliant when in flower: 
this, with a small liliaceous plant, is a curious instance of plants 
from the Sewalik hills a in so very deine an 
habitat. 
** Of large trees the peepul is the valy one of usual occur- 
rence: sometimes the Tamarix Fras, or Pharmi, as it is nam- 
ed in this part of the country, is foúnd of a considerable — 
The sissu extends even to the borders of the desert. Sirris 
is seldom to be seen; mangoe, or jamun never. The Nin 
is very rarely met with, only near some Musalmán saints 
tomb. 
In the most south-westerly part of this tract bordering 
what i is more remarkable is, that this parasite is only produced where 
madar grows on the very driest sandhills and solely in this portion of 
ar When I first met this as a shrub; I was unwilling to consider i os he 
s, on account of its large ovate stipules, that tree being € yen 
at but I have subsequently found stipules on the young branche? 
; thongh they are smaller in proportion to the leaf 
pri les are | much more numerous on the : 
