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ders of inundated fields for the sake of the very durable mats made 

 of its culms. 



Botrychium lanuginosum. 



Sinapis, pp. 441, 442. Vide corrections ante, p. 619. 



Amaranthus farinaceus, (not anardana.) 



Amaranthus caudatus (not speciosus*) 



Cucurbita citrullus, "Turbooz." Not common. 



Dolichos sinensis, " Lohbia." Gardens. During powerful sunshine, 

 the leaflets of D. catjang may be observed in motion much like that 

 of Desmodium gyrans. 



Soja hispida, " Bhut." This pulse, though reckoned unwholesome* 

 and only consumed by the poorest classes, is extensively grown in Ku- 

 maoon, and is evidently of old standing, as many leguminous shrubs ; 

 Desmodium, &c, take their names " Bhutola," from it, as others, 

 * Guhutya," from Dolichos uniflorus. The cultivation of Soja extends, 

 I am assured, to Nepal and the north of Tirhoot, under the name of 

 " Bhutnas" or " Bhutwas ;" a circumstance not noted in our books on 

 their agriculture. 



P. 448, Acacia dumosa. This shrub, or small tree, not observed 

 elsewhere in Kumaoon, is common in Gurhwal up to the Ganges, and 

 appears to be confined to the banks of the streams and rivers where 

 they enter the plains and Doons. It is generally known by the same 

 names, Keekur and Bubool, as A. arabica. The pinnse are 3 — 5, the 

 leaflets 4 — 10 ; glands various, and in its young branches, petioles, 

 thorns, very villous with rufous down. It disagrees with the account in 

 W. and A.'s Prodromus. The flowers are white, probably in December 

 or January ; it is in young fruit in February. The peduncles solitary or 

 in pairs, equal to, or twice as long as the leaves, with umbel of 3 — 7 

 legumes ; 5 — 8 seeded, flat, smooth, linear, nearly straight, pendulous, 

 3 — 5 inches long, by less than a quarter of an inch broad ; the border 

 with a long shallow sinus between each seed. This form seems the main 

 difference from A. latronum. 



Burmdeo and Poonagiri, p. 571. 



Wendlandia puberula. 



Bambusa stricta, Roxb. is the common species of the Turaee and 

 lower mountains. 



Briedelia scandens, reaches the Suniya jungles, 



