128 FLORA 1NDICA. 



ghbourhood of Mangalore, and partly 



Mercara 



The mountains o 

 Munro and Cantain 



explored by Captain 



Wight. Copious Herbaria were also made in va- 



own collectors. The district 

 of Nagar seems to have been visited by Hamilton only, on 

 his return from Canara to Mysore : his notices of it are veiy 

 scanty. Dr. Wight has further published a few plants of the 

 Bababuden hills. 



careful 



in th 



sures 



cally, and that there are not many more phsenogamic plants 



future 



3. CONCAN. 



This 



to the Tapti river. Like Malabar, which it greatly resembles 



western 



near 



salt-water inlets, and a succession of mountain spurs. In the 

 northern parts of the Bombay Presidency, the chain separating 

 the Concan from the Dekhan is called the Northern Ghats, or 

 Siadri mountains, a term which mav nmwm^cm+w Lp pxtended 



which 



necessary to particularize them. Throughout the Concan 

 jy form a continuous chain of hills, interrupted, however, 



Throu 



sharp or flat-topped peak- 



To the east they slope gently into the plains of the Dekhan. 



mi ». • — _ * — _ — -a i 1 a 



summits rise to the height of 4000-5000 



mean 



elevation is very much less. The station of Mahaba- 

 leshwar is 4700 feet. In the latitude of Daman 20f° N.), the 

 chain begins to sink abruptly into the Tapti valley, and changes 



course 



easterly direction, as the Chancier hills. 



