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Tamarix Indica (= T. Gallica, L.) 
T. Dioica, Roxb. 
T. Orientalis. 
Phenix Dactylifera, L. 
Saccharum Munja, Roxb. 
S. spontaneum, L. 
8. cylindricum, Lam. 
Typha (angustifolia ?) 
Creeping amongst the above, climbing to the top of all, shewing off 
its lovely flowers, was Asclepias rosea, Roxb. in great beauty. 
Acacia Arabica, ‘ Bubber’ (Scindee,) ‘Babool’ (Hind.) ‘ Kekur’ 
(Punjabee). A. A. var Cupressus, ‘ Caublee-bubber’ (Scindee). 
This tree with its variety grows in very great luxuriance and 
tolerably rapidly, and within 60 miles of Kotree it is in much greater 
abundance than further up the river; it here forms dense jungles 
and yields very fair timber. The tree itself is too valuable to be 
directly used for firewood, its chief timber being used for railway 
sleepers; the rest of the wood and branches only are converted into 
firewood or charcoal, and the bark and fruit reserved for tanning 
purposes. 
A tree (as it stands) that can yield from two to three sleepers, 
costs one Rupee, the buyer felling and carrying it away. White ants 
do not injure the felled logs much, and the old wood is tolerably 
proof to their attacks. 
The timber of the Cupressiform variety is considered the bet er, 
being closer in grain, and harder than that of the common outspread- 
ing tree: being also of greater length, and thus generally giving 
an additional sleeper. 
Prosopis spicigera, ‘ Kunda’ (Scindee,) ‘ Jand’ (Punjabee). 
This tree is not common on the Balaas ; indeed it is scarcely to be 
seen in any quantity until we get above Sukker, and then chiefly on 
the mainland, where it is obtained largely, especially at one of the 
river wood stations called Jummalee. 
Its wood is good for fuel, but alas, too readily attacked by white 
ants. These insects seem to relish it more than any other of the 
woods, and from the great loss it suffers from these destructive insects — 
