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corona of the former, but the coronal leaflets cleft and the pollen 

 masses oval and ventricose as in the latter, with other peculiar cha- 

 racters besides. It is a low, twining, small, fleshy, lance-leaved under- 

 shrub. I have called it provisionally JS'wi'ro/;is. It is in great abundance 

 in the Punjab. I met with the Dhak {Buteafrondosd) as far as the west- 

 ern bank of the Jhelum. The Flora begins to change atllawulPindee, 

 which is elevated and continuous so on to the plain of Chuch, along 

 the banks of the Attock. Here I first came on the famous Zuetoon, 



the wild olive, Olea ? and further on, at Hussan Abdal, I found 



Himalayan Rahi and a Cashmeer Dianthus, white flowered and new 

 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 

 lower part of the plain of Peshawur, where we now were, is sandy, 

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

 Ckenopodeee, Alhagi, Caloiropis, Peganum, Tamarix, &c. But when 

 we got to Peshawur, so much do the seasons difl^er that peaches 

 were coming into fruit the 15th 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 obuvata, the Egj^ptian 

 senna in flower. I had previously got the same ])lantfrom near Delhi, 

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

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

 other plants. From Peshawur Burnes started for Cab ul, 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 difterence of latitude and altitude into account, 

 with 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 Dodoncea Bunnanniana . 

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



