GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE FLORA. 



change with the type. 



soil. But the type of Sal varies, and its associate 

 It is at its best in valleys with a deep loam 

 " heDharwars. T 



is not found on t 



with the tvpe. It with a deep loamy 



'* .,__ ., .,__ ™~Trars. This is the Valley type of 



Parganas and gr< > v. j " once extended 



to the edge of the laterite inTu Midnapur, where the remnants of Sal 

 oppkt ma\ Mi he seen Mil. igh trap may be an unfavourable 

 Mil.-M.il f„i Sal, other reasons must also be looked for to account for 

 its absence from Western Iiul .s i i- iNn ilwent on sandstones 

 and other rocks in the wester. rovinces. 



, ..-:• though it v.ill grow among quart/.ite boulders, 

 and it is decidedly calciphobous. It also avoids the cotton soil. 



135. As showing how dependent its o, urr.-n e .-= on tie fliysi a 

 properties of the sub-soil and its permeabdity by the roots, it will 

 grow well on one side of a ridge composed of hard t mi- i. u- - •!> 

 inclined at .iindr. mm.- or less parallel to one slope, but not or only 

 i.adlv on the other, and this i- nine,, -a,, lent of the aspect. The slope 

 on which it grows well has the edges of the schists exposed, the other 

 slope is more or less parallel to the lamina.,!., thus present nu a 

 Mirfa.-e with few breaks. On such unfavourable slopes is poor dry 



VM\. In the sallev ! s ,.<■ Sal will attain very large dun. 

 Central and Southern tracts When I first knew Singbhiim m IH't.i, 

 sound trees of looft in height and ovei 12 ft. girth were frequent in 

 the then inaccessible parts of the forest. 



137. The Sal associates ,n the valh^ typ. in d.tferent botlwrem 

 those of the Northern tracts and from the Hill type Here^Carei/a 



andT. belenca, e Schichera trljti^t and l''- •<■•■>"> wrtrsujn«m are 



' l^The'associates in the hill type are Gardenia spp., especially on 



, r soils or m ope-; forest ;. 



•!at hill-to P s), Amg»*m» 

 htifolia (for fuller lists see p. 61). 



