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to you. Near Attock I joined the party, having marched hitherto 

 alone. We halted at Attock, the dry arid hills of which have a pecu- 

 liar vegetation. "We crossed the noble Indus at Attock ; a fearful 

 ferry, in the rains the river running eight knots an hour. The 

 low^er part of the plain of Peshawur, vt^here we now were, is sandy, 

 and has exactly the Flora of the arid tracts of the Punjab ; Salsolas, 

 ChenopodecE, Alhagi, Calolropis, Peganum, Tamarix, &c. But when 

 we got to Peshawur, so much do the seasons differ that peaches 

 were coming into fruit the loth of August, and the Kurreel {Cap- 

 paris aphylla) out of flower only lately. From Peshawur I made an 

 excursion to Cohaut, and from thence to the Salt Hills and the 

 valley of Rungush. In the Salt Hills I got a Stapeliaceous Asclepiad, 

 unfortunately neither in flower nor fruit, very probably one of Wight's 

 Carallumas or Boucerosias. Also the Cassia obovata, the Egyptian 

 senna in flower. I had previously got the same plant from near Delhi, 

 no doubt about the species ; certainly not the obtusa of Roxb. ; the 

 legumes always crested over the bulge of the seeds. I got numerous 

 other plants. From Peshawur Bumes started for Cabul, and Mackeson 

 and I for Cashmeer. From Attock, Mackeson went by the straight 

 military road, as he was on a military survey, while I made an 

 attempt to run up the Indus into the hills. I got on three marches 

 and was forcibly stopped at Durbund (look at Burnes's map) and 

 threatened with rather rough usage. I then turned across the hills 

 and rejoined my companion in the noble valley of Huzara. The vege- 

 tation along the banks of the Indus from Attock to Durbund surprised 

 me much. It is quite that of the characteristic forms of the Deyra 

 Dhoon, and taking difference of latitude and altitude into account, 

 wdth the great distance westward, this might not have been looked for: 

 Grislea tomentosa, Rottlera tinctoria, Hastingia coccinea. Acacia Ca- 

 techu, Holostemma, &c. On the banks of the Indus, in the valley lead- 

 ing up to Cashmeer from Huzara, I found the Dodonoea Burmanniana. 

 You remark in your notice of the Sapindacece its absence from the 

 Bengal and Hindoostan region. Its occurrence with a leap further 

 north is remarkable. From Huzara we marched on by the Paklee 

 road to Mosufferabad. Near Drumbur I came on the Hovenia dulcis. 

 At Mosufferabad I got on a high ridge, and followed it on to Cash- 

 meer, where we arrived early in October. It was now too late in 

 the season to exhaust the Flora of the valley and neighbourhood, so 

 I made up my mind to winter here and make a fresh start in spring. 

 It would take pages to contain what I have observed about the Flora 

 here, late as I came. It has several anomalies ; few if any oaks de- 

 scend on the northern side of the Peerpunjal into the valley. I have 



