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FLORA INDICA, 



with 



hill 



The flora of the Na2*a 



published in Griffith's journals, as the collections which he 

 made there have not been distributed. Except Liquidambar 



Kaulfx 



Khasia 



certainly the same. He especially alludes to the absence of 

 Conifer a, of which however a species is said to abound on the 

 hills of Manipur, to the southward. Of genera indicating 

 elevation, he mentions Acer, Vaccinia, Daphne, Berberis, 

 Bucklandia, Crawfurdia, Viburnum, and Cyathea, all equally 

 typical of elevation in the Khasia and Eastern Himalaya. 



Mesua 



Magnolia, JEsculus, Pandanus, A 

 are indicated as prevalent forms. 



4. Cachar and Silhet. 

 The vallev, or rather marshv plain of the river Surma 



Assam 



much resem- 

 It is an open 



am 



hundred 



scattered hills : below, it expands into the Jheels of Eastern 



as the spurs 



Tippera and Naga hills encroach upon it, separating fertile 

 plains by narrow ridges covered with dense forest. The moun- 

 tains which skirt this plain on the north nowhere attain an 



than 



ayw. 



The 



mate is the same as that of Bengal and Assam, but more 

 healthy ; the rains are heavy, the winter more mild, and the 

 sDrinsr moist and not hot. The rain-fall at Silhet is very 



h 



year. At Cachar 

 The vegetation 



