BIHAR AND ORIS 



sive in the Sout h. uld be anticipated 



from the greater humidity, especially near the .oast. i 

 the mountain top f erred to; that of the low-lying 



re.irK.ns contains a la r. ire number of .species (see pp. 55, 56), of which 

 the most interesting perhaps an <■■<• , , \ ■ -" /,,,/„„,', a tree oi 

 the eastern Him, I ah an d the Bombay ghats, all 



regions of heavy rainfall ; Qmn tagong) ; Aporosa 



Qg and Burmah; 

 Macaranga peltata, a rapidly growing tree overtopping the Teak in 

 " ' ' Polyalthia simia 



dittagong, Burmah, Duars, a tall straight tree with pale hark and 



-»■ — i Ind. Archipel. ; Alphonsea 

 spectafjilis, distrib. Duars to 

 Coastal Tracts. 



These alluvial plains ™re '"chiefly* rSelds, *^ whkh^lie^geMS 



'y^'„; 



\d~Bora*ms flabellij 







the palms F 



sea. Corns „ », 













of Casuarina, 























', rl.-,.. 





e plants of this forj 







dels" Among'S 



ntioned the Ipomce 















hich the large globose 1 

 sand- binders of the efn< 



'e'n'v 



e dunes. The Opuntia 



The Mangrove formation. -The tidal forests extend along the 

 *°?l m? ? n l River at Chandballi to the Tallanga Canal 

 of the Mahanadi, but saline marshes with some of the charac- 

 2 : trees of the deltaic swamps, e. g. Excoecaria agallocha, Acanthi 

 ma, are also tound in Balasore at the mouth of the Burubulung 



