382 The Turaec and Outer Mountains of Kumaoon. [May, 



Verbena officinalis. 

 Bidens Wallichiana. 

 Hamiltonia azurea. 

 Scutellaria repens. 

 Shuteria involucrata. 

 Triumfetta oblongata. 

 Abutilon oxyphyllum. 



These descend in the Pass to the 



Leea Sambucina. )> level of Kotah Fort, perhaps 



Cheilanthes dealbata. 2500 feet. 



Adiantum Capillus Veneris. 



Adiantum rhizophorum. 



Lygodium japonicum : about the Kotah Bagheechu. 



Hibiscus cannabinus, " Sun," is cultivated to a small extent in the 

 fields about Kotah : Crotolaria tetragona is wild i but the " Sunai" 

 Crotolaria juncea, appears to be unknown. 



December 15. — To Seetabun, about 6 miles W. S. W. The route 

 crosses the Dubka, of which the right bank is high and precipitous ; 

 the broad stony valley is tangled with Acacia catechu. Beyond the 

 river, the path lies through Sal forest, gradually descending with the 

 course of a stream, the Dhanee or Chuhul, from the eastern flank of 

 the Bahmunee ka Danda : this, at Seetabun, is joined by the Bahmu- 

 nee, a large stream, rising in the N. W. of the range so called : the 

 united current under the name Kichree, breaks, by a romantic pass, 

 through the great plexus of jungly hills here forming the outer range, 

 and ultimately joins the Dubka in the outer forests. The scenery 

 about Seetabun is extremely wild and beautiful ; Sal, of noble dimen- 

 sions, occupies the plateau of level, uncultivated land between and west 

 of the streams ; and beyond the forest, to the N. E. rises the brown 

 ridge and summit of the magnificent Bahmunee ka Danda, not unlike 

 Budraj, as seen from the Dehra Dhoon. Patkot, an extensive clearing, 

 lies at its base. There is no cultivation at Seetabun, nor does any road 

 exist for the transport of the timber ; the spot owes its name and cele- 

 brity to the legend that, at the confluence of the two streams, the per- 

 secuted dove, Seeta, found repose after her abduction by Rawun ; and 

 though the site be considerably out of the line of operations between 

 Oude and Ceylon, a grove of Asoca trees (Jonesia Asoca) flourishes in 

 proof of the fact : introduced, no doubt, by the Gosains, and other 



