HINDOO- KOOSH — SOHKTA. 



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kinds, two undescribed ; immense quantities of Artemisia, coarse tufted 

 grasses, Onosma, Carduacea herbacea of Hajeeguk, uncommon ; Tri- 

 ticoides 998, not common; Alium fusco purpurea common. A few- 

 exposed rocks occur on the summit. The ravines are all dry, there 

 being no water or very little in them, and no cultivation ; thus the 

 contrast visible on both sides of the Kulloo river which runs round 

 the foot of the mountain, is remarkable. Vegetation being distinct on 

 either side. 



Yet the ravine of Topehee shows, that when exposed to the action 

 of water, this rock becomes very precipitous, cliffy, easily dislocated : 

 the latter part of the road winds over a portion of this. Chakor, 

 Ptarmigan a fine bird, voice somewhat like that of a vulture, to which 

 it is perhaps anologous. 



About Sohkta or in ravines, Euphorbia linearifolia, Ephedra, Aste- 

 roides, Rosa Ribes, Composita dislocata, Artemisiae, Aster pyrami- 

 dalis, Chenopodium villosum fsem., Senecionoides. 



Scutellaria, Scrophularia, Santonicoides, Polygonum fruticosum, 

 Salvia, Artemisia linearifolia, Centaurea angustifolia, Cochlearia, Um- 

 belliferse of Yonutt, Stellaria, Glaucium, Labiata nova, Hyoscyamus 

 minor, Lactucacea, Linaria, Salsola elegans, Marrubium, common 

 thistle, Rumex, Potentilla anserina, Sinapis of Siah-Sung ravine, Ber- 

 beris, Secaloides, Statice, Marmots, Statice glauca pedunculata, Stipha 

 of Nakhood, Aconiti sp., Ferula? Spiraea facie frutex, Ribes, Muscoides. 



First ridge Dianthoides, Statice three to two glaucous species, one 

 sessile the other pedunculate,Ferula, Scutellaria, Labiata trumpet-shap- 

 ed calyces, Astragali, Diacanthus, Stipa, Ribes, Arenaria spinosa, Triti- 

 cum cameo pubescens, Pulmonaria corolla trumpet- shaped, Salvia 

 sparingly, Pommereulla, Artemisia in profusion, Spirseoides, Che- 

 nopodium villos., fsemin. parvus, Leguminosse two or three, Ruwash 

 . sparingly. 



Not much change beyond, 1 2,000 feet, at that height Glaucium in 

 abundance, with a few Hyoscyamus parvus, Borago. 



Labiatifol, inciso dentatis occurs throughout, Sinapis of Siah-Sung 

 straggles to 12,000 feet. 



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Sohkta. 2nd cliff . • . . • • 



* 1st. . ' . 



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. • . Topehee. 



