1864.] On the Vegetation of the Jhelum District, 319 



tered over the hill, it would seem that this tree has formerly existed 

 in large numbers. It is very characteristic, more especially during the 

 winter, when enormous bunches of dried flowers are seen hanging from 

 it, the tree itself being deprived of all its foliage. 



Dcemia extensa, E. Br. and Gardinia tetrasperma are not unfrequent- 

 ly to be met with over the cliffs. 



Asplenium Dalhousice is very common in the nooks and corners of 

 the rocks where moisture collects and affords a damp soil. 



Above 2,500 feet we come for the first time upon a species of the 

 genus Arum, most likely Typhonium (?) 



Although at 1,500 feet on the rock above the fort at Mungla, 

 Amphicoma Umodi, Boyle, is to be found in great luxuriance, I 

 have not obtained it on Tilla under 2,500 feet. 



We now see the eastern face of the main hill covered with a shrub 

 producing enormous palmate foliage, but as I obtained neither its fruit 

 nor flower, I can only say that it is most likely to be a Stereulia (?) 



A single specimen of Cordia vestita (?) Hf and T. occurs upon the 

 margin of the tank on the southern shoulder of the hill. From its 

 situation by the tank and its being the only specimen of its kind, it 

 has most likely been introduced. 



Adidntum caudatum occurs now, in great abundance in damp loca- 

 lities. 



Celtis Caucasica as a small tree is here common, shewing tolerably 

 good sized timber. 



At 3,000 feet we come upon the Convolvulaeece in great luxuriance 

 viz., Pharhitis nil, Ipomoea muricata, Eoxb., and. Z pilosa, Choisy 

 with Campanula canescens ; the last only in damp localities, where also 

 we obtain that beautiful grass Batratherum molle, Nees. 



Galium aparine with Cheilanthes farinosa, in the recesses and 

 clefts of the rocks. 



On the very summit we have Geranium rotundifolia and G. lucida ? 

 being the first of this genus as yet obtained, with Galium aparine 

 which indicate a great altitude ; besides Phyllanthus niruri, Clematis 

 Gouriana, Jasminum grandiflora and Vitex negundo, L. 



On the summit of the hill we have a tolerably level piece of ground 

 partly cultivated by the fakirs, with a miserable attempt at a garden 

 planted by Government ; the remainder consists of a mass of jungle 

 Here we have a temple belonging to the fakirs ; with their burying places 



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