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placed, when lovely contrasts are produced by sucli varied liues as the 

 deep purple of the young leaves of ScMeiehera trijuga, Willd., with an 

 infinitude of shades of red, white and green on the surrounding trees. 



While the trees remain leafless, the aspect of the jungle is bleak 

 and wintry, this is intensified by the action of the jungle fires, which 

 scorch up all the herbage, so that there is often little shade to be 

 found, when most wanted from the hot sun of April. 



The inflorescence, as a general rule, is of a dull and subdued charac- 

 ter. That of the Sal produces a peculiar hazy appearance over the 

 green foliage. The most brilliant flowers are those of Bombax Mala- 

 ba?'icum, Butea frondosa and B. superha ; perhaps the most beautiful 

 are the white and delicately-violet tinted blossoms of a species of 

 Bauhinia. In the fiat portions of the district which constitute the 

 1st, 2nd, 3rd, part of 4th and 5th zones, a four-fold division according 

 to the character of the vegetation may be made. 



First. Original jungle land in which trees are of large size. 



Second. Stunted jungle land from which timber is regularly cut, 

 and where the trees are never allowed to attain respectable dimensions. 



Third. Dry, gravelly and raviny or rocky ground incapable of sup- 

 porting a tree jungle. 



Fourth. Land under cultivation, or which has at some former time 

 been under cultivation. 



In th.e first division the characteristic trees are the following : 

 Shorea robusta, Roxb. 

 Terminal ia glabra, Roxb. 

 Buchanania latifolia, Roxb. 

 Semecarpus anacardium. L. 



Grislea tomentosa, Roxb. . 



Croton oblongifolium, Roxb. 

 Phyllanthus emblica, L. 

 Lagerstrcemia parviflora, Roxb. 

 Symplocos racemosa? 

 Conocarpus latifolia } Roxb. 

 Holarrhaana antidysenterica, Wall. 

 Randia dumetorum, Lain. 

 R — longispina, DC. 

 Eugenia jambolana, Lam. 



