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habit it seems as if it had been specially designed for 
making hedges ; but I believe there was formerly 
prevalent a notion that it was prejudicial to health, 
and it was objected to in military cantonments ; as it 
grows to more than four feet in height, perhaps it 
would come under the designation of " rank vegeta- 
tion/' The " Kameyla " (Eotilera tinctoria) was one of 
the most common trees, also the Pipal and Banyan, 
and another species of fig called " Trimmal " by the 
people, which has the fruit growing on the main 
stems. All the trees, both indigenous and cultivated, 
of the plains, extend thus far into the hills, and 
many of those cultivated on the plains, such as 
the Pomegranate, are found here wild. The Walnut 
and Plane were seen, but always of small size, and 
evidently introduced from Kashmir, where both are 
cultivated, but apparently not indigenous. 
The mass of the jungle on the hills is composed of 
" Phulai " {Acacia modesta) which is also indigenous on 
the plains; "Yehiker" {Justicia adhatoda) which ex- 
tends for twenty miles into the plains, and Dodon^ea^ 
which is much cultivated as a hedge plant in the 
Panjab under the name of Bog Myrtle, from some 
supposed resemblance to the Sweet Gale of English 
marshes. In Agra I found that the Dodoncea was called 
Australian Box. 
A species of Rhus was common ; this yields a very 
beautiful timber called Zebra Wood, which is much 
used about hill stations for carvintj. I also saw a 
Celtis, a Barberry, "Curounda " {Carissa Carundas), and 
a species of wild pear. 
Leaving Krimchi at 9 a.m., I walked fifteen miles 
to Mir, where I found Mr. Forsyth ; the first two- 
