ON TT1E FLORA OF CUTCII. 75'J 



are often varied by patches of white strongly relieved against the 

 jaceni sombre colour of some mass of intrusive or overlying (nip.*' 1 



There are no rivers thai hi ve water ( agli to flow throughout the 



year. The river courses are merely channels for conveying the 

 periodical floods from the central uplands to the sea and Rami respect- 

 ively. The Khari, which rises in the Ohorad lulls, about eight miles 

 south-west of Bhuj, has a course of about 30 miles, blowing past Bhuj 

 and winding its way between steep banks in places 110 feci high, it 

 keeps north and loses itself in the Rami, The largest rivers that have 

 ■ southern direction are the Madh and the Tera. They flow for aboui 

 30 miles across the Abdasa plain and fall together into the Gulf ci' 

 Cutch. Owing to the fact that almost all the rocks are impregnated 

 with ^alts, the water of the Gntcb streams is unfit to drink, and during 

 the hot reason i< too salt even for cattle. This circumstance has to do 

 i Teat deal with the character of th • present flora. Water is usually 

 found at no ureal depth from the surface. Mam wells being 10 to 

 lo feet deep yield sufficient supplies. The ponds, which are not un- 

 common, are mostly small and usually run dry in six months. - 



As to the climate of Cutch we have to rely almost entireh on 

 general and insufficient data scattered ben' and there in various 

 descriptions of thai Province 3 . Being situated along the north parallel 

 of the tropic of Cancor, hitch is very little subjected to the rain 

 bringing influence of the south-west monsoon. Though heavy 

 monsoon rains are experienced on the western shores and side of 

 India far to the north of Ahmedabad, they seem to neglect t ic 

 southern parts of S hid and Kattiawar. The il years preceding i.^o! 1 



' Memoirs of tb< Ueological Survey of In'lia, vol. IX., p. 14. 



For farther information regarding the physical geography of cutch we refer to— 

 MacMnrdo, J.— An account of the province of Kutch and of the countries lying bi 



Guzerat and the Indus in " Transactions nf the Literary Society of Bombay, Vol. II " 

 1820. 

 ■ . C. W. — Memoirs to illustrate a geological map of Kutch in "Geological I'. 

 Western India " by Carter, 18S7. 

 Raikes, S. N. — MeJD»il '<a theKntch State. 1854. 

 Records of the (ieological Survey of India, Vol. II, parts - and J, 18G9. 

 Wynne, A. B— Memoir on the Geology of Cutcb in "MemoirB of the Geological Sun 

 India," Vol. IX, 18T2. 

 cf. Ra-.ken, S. N, 1. c. 



Raikes, N. 8.— Brief notes relative to the Kutch State, 1854. 

 Burner, J.— Ceneral remarks on the medical topography of Bhooj, 1828. 

 Wynne, A. B., I.e. 

 Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. V. 



