L CHARACTER OF THE FLORA. 





flower during the by the flowering 



of geftaminece, ground Orchids (epiphytic orchids mostly flower in 

 the hot season), several Liliacece and Tacca, and also the rapid pro- 

 duction of new shoots of the perennial grasses and bamboos, which 



the open country green with crops or tall grasses and c 

 101. The dominant families according to mere number of s 

 1. btguminosce. 2. Qraminet*. 3. Cyperacece. 4. Composite 



12. Ver'benacece. 

 The enumeration of the ten most preval 



e flora by districts, such as Prain's 



species by sub 



In our < 

 n tracts. This is merely due 

 s Flora, instead 



apply the system to 



nil imperfect data are apt to be misleading. It 

 , for instance, a very imperfect idea of the distribution nf DiJis- 

 r Chota Nagpur (or whatever sub- 



and Orissa. For similar reasons, viz. the 

 le Central Provinces and'othcr adjacent and 



notes in the following pages t r of the Gangetic 



Sea has been bridged partly via Chittagong and Orissa, as well as in 

 , have the Cxpiiliftn, . 



