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



Laurus cassia (cinnamomum albiflorum.) 



Decandria monogynia. 



Bauhnia scandens (Vahlii.) 



Bauhinia variegata. 



Guilandina moringa, (Moringa pterygosperma.) 



Murray a exotica. 



Melia azadirachta (probably the Bukayun, not the Neem, is intend- 

 ed, the last is rare in the forests ; indeed I did not observe it at Kot- 

 dwara, where the Bukayun is common, though perhaps not wild. Not- 

 withstanding all that Dr. Boyle has written on the subject, it seems 

 quite unnecessary to make the " Bukayun" a new species of Melia ; it 

 agrees perfectly with the Melia azedarach of Roxburgh, Wight and 

 Arnott, and Loudon's Encyclopaedia, where the description of the 

 drupes tallies with Dr. R.'s account (p. 141, Illustrations) of the Bu- 

 kayun ; and certainly the tree of Provence, Egypt, &c, is no other ; — 

 nor do the people of northern India generally (and apparently of Nepal) 

 know of any other. Munshi Murdan All, of Seharunpoor, informs 

 me that the " Dek" is a mere variety, only differing from the Bukayun 

 by a more spreading habit, which gives less shade ; and one of the 

 Seharunpoor gardeners now employed at Hawulbagh, on being asked 

 what was the " Dek," pointed at once to the Bukayun, which I have 

 heard termed " Dykna" in Gurhwal, and " Jek" near Simla. The 

 size, as well as the form and number of the leaflets on each pinna of 

 the Bukayun differ so considerably even on the same branch, as to 

 remove any reliance on this kind of test ; and yet it so happens that 

 Messrs. "Weight and Arnott found Roxburgh's own specimens of M. 

 azedarach and sempervirens so much alike as to appear as if cut from 

 the same tree. " Dr. Roxburgh also states the Bukayun to be a native 

 of Persia, though common throughout India, and that its Arabic 

 name is Ban. This, in addition to the specimens in the East India 

 Herbarium, perfectly identifies his plant with that of northern India." 

 (Royle.) But the plant so named by Roxburgh is his Melia sempervi- 

 rens, " a small, delicate, evergreen," which is certainly unknown in 

 northern India, and, from the silence of W. and A. apparently equally 

 so, in the south. Roxburgh found his plant to coincide with those raised 

 from West Indian seed of M. sempervirens, which however, so far from 

 being a small evergreen, is said in Loudon's Encyclopaedia, to be a tree 



