10. Preliminary Note on the Flora of the Anaimalais. 
By C. Fiscurr, Indian Forest Service. 
(Read at the Indian Science Congress, Jan. 1918). 
The Anaimalai Hills form the northern mass of a vast 
stretch of mountain region that occupies a considerable por- 
tion of the Travancore and Cochin States and parts of the 
Madura and Coimbatore Districts in British territory. An off- 
shoot runs southwards to the neighbourhood of Cape Comorin. 
e range we are here concerned with falls within the 
limits of the Coimbatore District. It lies on the border land 
etween Travancore, Cochin and Coimbatore, distinctly nearer 
the west than the east coast of the Peninsula, and covers a 
length of about 33 miles from west to east, with a maximum 
breadth, north to south, of 17 miles. 
The range is not everywhere very clearly separated from 
the Travancore Hills to the south. On the west and east it is 
cut off from the Neliampatti and Palni hill ranges respectively 
While southwards, after falling to about 6,500 feet near the 
Travancore border, the land rises again to culminate at Anai- 
mudi, 8,800 feet, the highest point in Southern India. _ 
he whole tract forms a very wild and rugged region, - 
he first visit of a European of which we have any re- 
Cord was made by Captain (afterwards 
at Forest Officer othe idence Presidency, if not in India, 
a hi 51. He made two or three trips to the higher ee aes 
Hee level valley commemorates his name. Captain te 5 
N ‘milton, another, Forest Officer drawn from the then Ma: : 
ative Infantry, also explored these hills in the sixties of the 
rcs eee 
General) J. Michael, 
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