622 The Turaee and Outer Mountains of Kumaoon. [June, 



exactly such as the mountaineers of the Himalaya still designate by 

 some term compounded of Bhoot, a goblin, a spirit : BhootJces, " ghost's 

 hair," being applied to several plants with finely cleft leaves and flowers, 

 or furnished with copious long tomentum. Swetasurasa may denote 

 Mike a white angel;" but Dr. Wilson says, "White Rasan," Ophi- 

 oriza mangos, to which it is compared ; a plant I am not aquainted 

 with, nor is it certain that Rasna is properly so rendered. The syno- 

 nymes of the Umurkosh, not at present within my reach, might tend to 

 establish this identification ; but, right or wrong, Nyctanthes is clearly 

 excluded, being never blue : the Kumaoon pundits all consider it to be 

 the " Parijat," pared down to mundane attributes ; in color of flower it 

 comes near the Villarsias. 



Several trees are to be found in the Sewalik and Bhabur of Gurhwal 

 which have not hitherto been met with in Kumaoon. 



Such are Pongamia glabra, Boswellia glabra, Cochlospermum gossy- 

 pium, Feronia elephantum and Limonia crenulata ; the last suddenly 

 makes its appearance in great abundance a few miles S. E. of Laldhang : 

 some of the others would not be recognized, being leafless all the cold 

 weather. Batis spinosa (or aurantiaca?) the "Kangoo" and " Manda," 

 of the Dehrah Doon, I have not seen S. E. of the Ganges. It has a 

 fruit the size of a small custard-apple, repening in November, and not 

 unlike the Maclara aurantiaca or Osage orange ; while Roxburgh de- 

 scribes his with fruit the size of a pea, The natives of the plains gener- 

 ally mistake the Doon shrub for Flacourtia cataphracta, and call it 

 Puniyala and Puchnala. 



Bheemtal, p. 403, 404. 



Urtica (not Bcehmeria) frutescens, " Poee," " Phoosur puta ;" it 

 comes near Urtica pulcherrima of Roxburgh, and is common to the 

 Ganges in Lower Gurhwal, where it is called " Dhoula Kagshee ;" the 

 " Pooah" of Nepal and Sikhim (also at p. 587.) Vide Journal Agri, 

 and Hort. Soc. Bengal, Vol. VI. p. 135. 



Hedera elata ? tree of 30 feet, Sat Tal. 



Hedera terebinthacea (not parasitica : and also p. 352.) 



Casearia tomentosa. 



Sabia paniculata (not campanulata, which has purple, not green 

 flowers, as represented by Dr. Wallich ; it is very common in Kumaoon : 

 the drupes when ripe are of an ultra-marine blue. 



