54 The Vegetation of the Islands of the Indus River. [No. 2, 



Tamarix Indica (=z T. Gallica, L.) 

 T. Dioica, Roxb. 

 T. Orientalis. 

 Phcenix Dactylifera, L. 

 Saccharuni Munja, Roxb. 

 S. spontaneum, L. 

 S. cylindricum, Lam. 

 Typha (angustifolia ?) 

 Creeping amongst the above, climbing to tbe top of all, sbewing off 

 its lovely flowers, was Asclepias rosea, Roxb. in great beauty. 



Acacia Arahica, ' Bubber' (Scindee,) ' Babool' (Hind.) ' Kekur' 

 (Punjabee). A. A. var Cupressus, ' Caublee-bubber' (Scindee). 



This tree with its variety grows in very great luxuriance and 

 tolerably rapidly, and within 60 miles of Kotree it is in much greater 

 abundance than further up the river ; it here forms dense jungles 

 and yields very fair timber. The tree itself is too valuable to be 

 directly used for firewood, its chief timber being used for railway 

 sleepers ; the rest of the wood and branches only are conveitecl into 

 firewood or charcoal, and the bark and fruit reserved for tanning 

 purposes. 



A tree (as it stands) that can yield from two to three sleepers, 

 costs one Rupee, the buyer felling and carrying it away. White ants 

 do not injure the felled logs much, and the old wood is tolerably 

 proof to their attacks. 



The timber of the Cupressiform variety is considered the better, 

 being closer in grain, and harder than that of the common outspread- 

 ing tree : being also of greater length, and thus generally giving 

 an additional sleeper. 



Prosopis spjicigera, ' Kunda' (Scindee,) ' Jand' (Punjabee). 



This tree is not common on the Balaas ; indeed it is scarcely to be 

 seen in any quantity until we get above Sukker, and then chiefly on 

 the mainland, where it is obtained largely, especially at one of the 

 river wood stations called Jummalee. 



Its wood is good for fuel, but alas, too readily attacked by white 

 ants. These insects seem to relish it more than any other of the 

 woods, and from the great loss it suffers from these destructive insects 



