14 DR. HOOKER'8 MISSION TO INDIA. 
Banana, Tamarind, Orange, Cocoa-nut or Date (Phænis sylvestris). 
The Mahoua (Bassia latifolia), and Mango are the least uncommon 
irees. "There is no Kunker in the soil here, and the roads are con- 
sequently mended with quartz, much to the poor elephant's annoy- 
We dismounted where some very micaceous stratified rock cropped 
out, plentifully powdered with a tasteless saline efflorescence. Three 
Zizyphi, one prostrate, and two erect, prevailed, with the Carissa 
Carandas, now in fruit : its berries are said to make good tarts, and the 
plant itself forms tolerable hedges. The little Pterygodium sulcatum 
was not uncommon in sandy, dry soils, and resembled our Neottia 
spiralis. On the scattered trees two ZLoranthi, one scarlet and the 
other pure yellow-flowered, abounded growing on Acacia and various 
other trees, also an epiphytal orchidaceous plant. 
Titcoree I found to be 1050 feet-above the sea, a much more con- 
siderable elevation than I had anticipated. The country around is 
rather pretty, and hilly, the bills covered with Bamboo and brush- 
wood, and, as usual, rising rather suddenly out of the elevated plains. 
They afford shelter to a few bears, and still fewer tigers; jackals in 
abundance, and very rarely foxes ; of birds, chiefly pigeons. Insects 
are very scarce, whether in the air or under stones or bark of trees. 
Locustide are the most prevalent, and typical of a dry and sterile cli- 
mate. 
The temperature at 3 Am., was 65°; at 9 AM., 77°; at 3 PM., 82°; 
and at 10 PM., 68°, from which there was no great variation during the 
whole time we spent on these elevated plains. The clouds are rare, and 
always light and high, except a little fleecy spot of vapour condensed 
close by the summit of Paras-Nath. The dews have hitherto been very 
slight, or none at all, though the sky was serene, and the stars clear, 
which is probably owing to the presence of the same all but imper- 
ceptible haze, = during the day, softens the landscape without 
obstructing visi 
(To be continued.) 
