PLANTS OF CHUTIA NAGPUR INCLUDING 
JASPUR AND SIRGUJA. 
By J- J. Wood, M.B., Surgn. Lieut.~Col., LM.S., Retired. 
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INTRODUCTION. 
T he area dealt with in the following lists is Chutia Nagpur, 
including the province so named as at present politically under- 
stood, but to this province, as being physiographically part of the 
same region, we must annex Santalia. 
The total area of Chutia Nagpur is 
44,000 square miles.^ 
1 V. Bali. i88o. 
The topography of this region is perhaps a little difficult; but if 
we take one section north and southerly, and another east and west, 
these will show the elevations and be, I hope, easily understood. 
The sections are diagrams and not to scale. 
It is only polite to start from the capital, and Hooker’s Himalayan 
Journals is the. best and cheapest* 
guide from Calcutta as far as Paras- 
nath Hill and the Dunwah pass on the Grand Trunk Road, and on to 
Rohtasgurh and the Son River. Our east to west section is further 
south. It shows the rise from Calcutta to Ranigunge collieries, 
crosses the Damuda there, and passes by the wooded hill of Pachete 
and rocky Rogonathpur to Purulia. 
From this point the Bagmundi hills are seen to the south and 
Parasnath on the distant north horizon. The section shows a gentle 
rise to Jhalda, where very fine examples of those striking, domeshaped 
porphyritic® gneiss rocks occur which 
are characteristic of Chutia Nagpur, 
s V. Ball, 
particularly here and on the Lohardugga and Hazaribagh plateaus. 
A little further on we cross the Subarnarekha River«*river of 
golden sand — flowing south, and reach Sillee, where there are more 
of the rounded knobs of gneiss ; one group resembling a fist was well 
named Knuckles ’’ by Mr, T."F. Peppe. 
