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CABUL TO BAMEAN. 



along all the moist spots, but it is useless as the camels prefer the 

 Carduacea of this place, though a bad fodder for them. 



Bar. 

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Ravine to west. . 



NW. .' 



Sir-i- • 



Chushme. 



Not much change was observed in the vegetation for half-way 

 up the 1st kotal or ascent; willows and poplars continue to nearly 

 one mile from the last village. Here and there along the ravine or 

 streamlet, Salvia is very common, Senecionoides, Bubonoides on 

 rocky ground, Sinapis, Verbascum decurrens used in the Himalayas 

 for German tinder, Statice of Dund-i-Shere, Muscoides of yesterday, 

 Urtica of Cabul, Malva rotundifolia, Hyoscyamus 1-labiat., Polygo- 

 num prostratum of shingly spots, Composita dislocata, Leucades, 

 Boraginea, Boraginis fasciae of before. About Kila Moostaffur Khan 

 a coarse tufted grass, Gentaurea oligantha common throughout, first 

 found at Khilat-i-Gilzee ; Onosma major, Cochlearia, Dianthoides, 

 Chenopodium diclinum, villosa, Astragali 2-3, Cichorum, Linaria an- 

 gustifolia, Euphorbia angustifolia, Marrabium, Hyoscyamus of Quet- 

 tah, Testucoides annua appears about here, Epilobium minus, Rumex, 

 Lactuca fol. cost, subtus spinosis, Melilotus, Silene angulata, Are- 

 naria, calyce globoso inflato, Echinops of Cabul. The water plants 

 are precisely the same as those of Cabul. 



For new plants see Catalogue 980, etc. 



Summit of 1st kotal Statice of Dund-i-Shere, Statice grandiflora, 

 Dianthoides, several Astragali, one with the pinnulse dentato serratis, 

 petiola spinosa, a tufted Monocotyledonous plant with terete cana- 

 liculate subulate leaves, Salvia, Gramen alterum, Composita dis- 

 locata, Carduacea, this is the most common plant on the open round- 

 ed parts, while the others occupy the rocky sides of the hills. The 

 vegetation is however very poor. 



Cultivation various, as seen in different stages along the gorge up 

 to the ascent. Thus, people are seen ploughing for the next year's 

 crops amidst stubble fields, and lucerne ; but above and throughout 

 the ascent, no crops are cut, while the wheat and barley on the 

 descent are in the ear : mustard very common. Several encampments 

 of what are badly called black tents, and paths are to be seen very 

 frequently over the hills in most directions, together with flocks of 



