JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. II. 1859. 



Notes on the Flora ofLuchnow with Catalogues of the cultivated and 

 indigenous Plants. — JBy Thos. Andeesoh", 1L D., F. L. S., 

 Garrison Asst. Surgeon, Fort William. 



As a large part of Northern India, including the Pnnjaub, is under 

 cultivation at all seasons of the year, its Flora may justly be styled 

 Agrarian ; only on unreclaimed land, does a spontaneous, shrubby 

 (rarely arborescent) vegetation occur, and this composed of a limited 

 number of well known species. Froin the existence of greater humi- 

 dity, along the base of the Hills, a luxurious forest exists there, which 

 seems to be merely an extension of the arboreous vegetation of the 

 outer Himalayas. The plants, in the neighbourhood of all the stations 

 in the Upper Provinces, are, with a few exceptions, of this Agrarian 

 type, but mingled with an introduced Flora of considerable amount 

 and with an extensive number of truly cultivated species. 



In native gardens, many species, indigenous in Southern India, 

 the Himalayas, and countries beyond the Indus, are cultivated, 

 which, from boundaries being broken down, and the gardens aban- 

 doned, spring up spontaneously in waste places. To these are to 

 be added a small, but widely spread, number of plants introduced by 

 the various conquerors of the country, such as Argemone Mexicana, 

 Anona squamosa and reticulata, FarTcinsonia aculeata, etc. These 

 various elements of the Flora of Northern India increase the mani- 

 fold difficulties of all young Indian botanists in whose collections 

 these cultivated plants are always to be found. That I may attempt 



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