NORTHERN DESCENT FROM KHEGUMPA. 



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The descent was steep, we soon came on Callicarpa arborea, Celtis 

 megala, Pogostemon, Stemodia grandiflora ; this was about 4,300 

 feet, where a clearing had been commenced : close to this I observed 

 Martynia, Pteris, Composita arborea, Desmodium vestilum, Flemingia, 

 and gathered at 4,000 feet a Verbenaceous shrub, looking like a 

 Plumbago, and a Bcehmeria ; continuing, without descending much, 

 I came on Pinus, Rhododendron, Gaultheria. 



Loranthus was here a common parasite on Pinus, oaks occurred but 

 the species was changed ; this had small leaves, white underneath ; 

 and descending we continued through pine woods, Artemisia minor, 

 together with the usual grasses and Aspideium macrosomum. 



Here we travelled along a hill just above a ravine. Either side of 

 this was covered with grasses and pines, the ravine being crowded 

 with oaks, etc. Panax, and Composita arborea occurred. 



A little below this, Hastingsia, common, Desmodium hispidisum, 

 Artemisia minor, Briedelia, Mimosa, and several Composite : we con- 

 tinued descending very steeply, and observed Holcus elegans, Melica 

 latifolia, Erianthus Apludoid Circium. 



At 2,600 feet, came on Scutellaria ; Pines had ceased, but on the 

 opposite side of the nullah, they descended lower. Knoxia scandens, 

 Kydia calycina, Hastingsia, Hedyotis linearis, Ficus pedunculis radi- 

 ciformibus pendulis, Leguminous trees as Dalbergia, Truimfetta; 

 Bcehmeria, Asparagus, Buchanania again, Solanum, 10-dentat., Urtica 

 urens,— 1. (66-208J .*) 



The altitude of the bed of the Cameon nullah is here, 1,937 feet, its 

 banks are formed by hills cut away and hence precipitous, those to 

 the east are covered with Pines, Oaks descend to this. Here Arundo 

 Karka, Leptospartion, Erythrina, Artemisia major, Solanum farina- 

 ceum, black pheasants of which I shot a male. Ficus Dumooriya, 

 Grislea, Rhamnoid scandens, Pandanus, Bcehmeria torrentum, Urtica 

 pendula, Barleria Prionites of Dgin, Sida cuneifolia, Dalbergioid. 



Thence we ascended 100 feet or thereabouts, and descended to 

 another and larger torrent. Anonacese, Phlogacanthus thyrsifloris 

 here occurred. 



The bed of this stream is 70 to 80 yards wide, but the volume of 

 water is inconsiderable. The hills forming the opposite bank are lofty, 

 not under 4 to 5,000 feet ; their bases and the nullah above alluded 

 to have the vegetation of Dgin, otherwise they are clothed with the 



* See note p. '212. 



