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At Bheemtal we enter on a new vegetable zone : — 



Quercns incana : about a thousand feet lower than its limit in the 

 Simlah mountains. 



Castanea tribuloides : fc Kutonj," near the Hurria Binaik, above the 

 lake. 



Flacourtia sepiaria : " Kundye." 



Celastrus nutans : " Malkaknee." 



Celastrus spinosa : " Gwala-darim." 



Cocculus Roxburghianus : " Goorjial," " Gurjial :" the " Peer-gruj" 

 of Silhet. Enormous tubers. 

 Cissampelos convolvulacea : " Faree." 



Phyllanthus leucopyrus : " Ainta." 



Phyllanthus retusa : " Dhunee." 



Euphorbia pentagona : " Seehoond." A favorite habitat of the 

 beautiful saccolabium guttatum, which the Chinese say grows also in 

 their country. 



Cissus capreolata : " Punch -puta." 



Clematis Buchananiana and velutina : " Ghuntiali." 



Ranunculus lsetus. 



Ranunculus sceleratus : " Sheem." " Jygunee-ainwa," equally at 

 home from Chouringhee to Arthur's Seat. 



Berberis asiatica : " Kilmora," (B. aristata commences at 5000 feet, 

 near Shamkhet.) 



Prinsepia utilis : M Jhutela." 



Rosa Brunonii : " Kooja." " Kweea," i( Kweeala." 



Rubus rotundifolia . " Heesaloo." 



Pyrus variolosa : " Mehul." 



Crataegus crenulata : " Geengaroo." From 2500 to 7000 feet, but 

 most luxuriant between 5000 and G000. 



Cerasus puddum (Royle.) Prunus cerasoides (Don's Prodromus.) 

 " Puya," " Pudm." A sacred (pavitra, pure) tree amongst the Hindoos ; 

 the name is from the S. " Pudmaksh," " Eye of the Lotus," in allusion 

 to its pink blossoms, which appear in Oct.-Nov., and are soon succeeded 

 by the leaves, which are of a glossy green, and in January, beset by 

 myriads of aphides, which distil great quantities of honey- dew over 

 them. This tree attains its perfection at Almorah, where it is the only- 

 evergreen, a very ornamental object amidst the prevailing sternness of 



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