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grain {var. graecum Kcke. Class XL\'), and a fully bearded wheat with red 

 chafi and white grain (var. ferrugineum Al. Class XXXV). 



LOEALAI. 



Loralai is a cresceiit -shaped District bounded on the north by Zhob, 

 on the west by Sibi. and on the east by Dera Ghazi Khan and Dera Ismail 

 Khan. The District has an area of 7,999 square niiles. It is mountainous 

 with long, narrow valleys between the mountain ranges. The chief valleys 

 are the Bori valley on the north which runs east and west with a length of 

 80 miles and a breadth of only 8 miles, the Sahra which lies in the noith-east, 

 the Barkh<4n valley in the south-east and the Karcha valley between the 

 Barkhan valley and Dera Ghazi Khan. In the south-western and central 

 portions of the District, lie a series of plains of which the most important is 

 Thai Chotiali which is so level and flat that it is said to have the ai^pearance 

 of an inland sea. 



The climate varies with the altitude. In tlie west, the summer is cool 

 and the winter hitensely cold, while in the south and east the heat in summer is 

 great and the temperature generally is more uniform. 



There is no monsoon and the rainfall is small, 8' 21 inches at Loralai 

 and 6-75 at Duki, but in contrast with the greater part, of Baluchistan the 

 greatest rainfall occurs in the summer, except on the west. 



As in Zhob, there are many rivers of which the Anambar and its tributaries 

 are the largest. Many of the streams are used for irrigation. Springs and 

 kdrezes are also common, the former occur mostly in Sanjawi tahsil. the latter 

 in Bori. Dry crop cultivation is carried on both by flood irrigation in embanked 

 fields and on rainfall only. The most important flood streams are the Anambar 

 and Thai streams in the Duki tahsil. 



The following estimate was made in 19U4-03 of the area under these 

 varicuis forms of irriL^ation : — 



A\'Iieat is the most impoitant crop hi the District ; in Sanjawi 2,230 acres 

 out of -1.115 acres cultivated were in wheat, in Bori 11,003 acres out of 15,434. 



