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On the Vegetation of the Jhelum District. 



[No. 3, 



wade out in large numbers at a time, and feeling with their toes for 

 the bits of wood, pick them up and raise them with their toes. The 

 wood is then placed in baskets and afterwards dried in the sun. This 

 is the cheapest kind of firewood. 



2nd. The large roots of trees chiefly of the " Cheer," Pinus 

 longifolia, carried down with the floods of the river, but not soaked 

 with water. 



3rd. That obtained from the jungles on the low ranges of hills. 



The jungle of the low ranges of hills is made up of — - 

 * Stunted shrubs of the Acacia modesta, Wall. " Phulai." Gapparis 

 aphylla, " Kureel." Carissa diffusa, Eoxb. " Karounda." Sageretia 

 Brandrethiana* " Kohare." Gymnosporia spinosa, " Putaker." Eliere- 

 tia aspera, " Chumroor" and " Kookhun." 



Grewia betulifolia. 



Cocculus leceba, 



Periploca aphylla. 



Asparagus, several species. 



Tavemiera nummular ea, D. 0. 



JDcdoncea JBurmanniana. 



These constitute the main part of it, but in some portions it may 

 be made up of the Zizyphus jujuba and Acacia Arabica, both very 

 stunted, with Adhatoda vasica, Nees, and the " Dhak," JButea frondo* 

 sa, the last chiefly in broken ground, where also we meet with Tecoma 

 undulata, " Loora." On the higher localities on the ridges of Mt. Tilla, 

 we may pick up shrubs of Olea JEuropea, Cow. « 



The under-shrubs and herbs growing with the above jungle are ; 



Salvia pumila, Benth. which in many places covers the ground like 

 a grass and is much sought after by sheep. 



JBoucerosia aucheri, " Choonya," a very characteristic plant, spring- 

 ing up from the roots and among the stems of the larger shrubs, 

 The natives collect it and use it largely as a bitter tonic. 



Solanum gracilipes, Jacq. 



Linaria ramosissima, Wall. 



Commelyna communis, L. 



Commelyna Bengalensis, L. 



Polygala arvensis, Willd. 



# Bageretia Brcm&retMcma, called after Arthur Brandreth, Esq., Bengali 

 Civil Service, 



