BOTANY OF BIHAR AND ORISSA. 



17S. 'II. isa very go, 

 district in the Gazetteer (1917) by the Rev. S. L. Thompson, formerly 

 Principal of St. Columba's College, Hazaribagh, which I have not 



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tunately he doe j as the present 



Flora only records 9 species of Utricularia from the whole province. 

 Mr. Thompson's I „.,.„ ;1 welcome contribution 



to this book had they been available. The following passage of Mr. 

 Thompson's account bears on the subject of the pitiful desastatimi 

 of the forests: "Unfortunately no report on the Hazaribagh tioni 

 can omit the most striking fact about it, i. e. its rapid disappearance. 

 The forest is ben 'roved, and with it a great 



number of plani ,..,1 interest are 



< lying helnu the r 



' ■■■ha, So nan ,l„ and A Hon thus 

 years ago there was considerable jungle, 

 jungle, or the loss to the villagers of their i 

 or merely the botanical loss, this is by far the most imp, 

 about the vegetation of Hazaribagh." 



179. For the most part the other accounts of the Bots 

 tted in nnnienrial 

 s,, ' u '"'' ,,f t . 1 "- mi ' but there are seldo 



"ror> i>, for mstain e. the allusion to the " graceful festoons 

 and masses of Cactus in the ( ; (> :l Hills." where, no doubt, t 

 and Euphorbia are alluded to. 



180 A general description of the botany of Monghvr is gi 

 *""■:[ \'"'" " ; " -rter, 1877), and al 



flame tree (Butea), purple azalea pea (Bauhinia v 

 acacias and mimosas. Nor must the Karzanis {A 

 jungle fluting the < old" sea^on.^The 9 fr^nkinc' 



