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A CENSUS OF THE INDIAN POLYGONUMS. 
given, to avoid repeated reference to the list of sub-sub-areas and p 
districts. . 
Except in one or two cases a rigid definition of the boundaries i 
of the sub'Sub-areas or districts is not attempted, as in the majority of i 
cases the names employed to denote them indicate their boundaries | ; 
with sufficient clearness ; any description in detail would be " 
unintelligible without a good map of India and superfluous with one. 
The sub-sub-areas and districts recognised in this paper are as under : 
in drawing them up the introductory essay to Hooker and Thomson’s 
Flora Indica has been used freely. 
I. — North-West Frontier. | 
This sub-sub-area includes also the Punjab and Rajputana. The I 
northern boundary is formed by the base of the North-West Himalaya; j 
its eastern by the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, and southern I 
by the Nerbudda river ; its western by the Arabian sea, Baluchistan, and jl 
Afghanistan. I 
Districts.— (i) The Afghan border. (2) British Baluchistan, ij 
(3) Scinde. (4) Gujrat^ Cutchy and Kathiawar. (5) Punjaby i 
west of the Sutlej. (6) Punjaby east of the Sutlej. 
(7) Bhawalpury Rajputanay and Indore. 
II. — Central Provinces. 
Districts. — (i) Central Provinces. (2) Berar. (3) Hyderabad. 
III. — Peninsular India. 
This sub-sub-area includes all the peninsula south of the Nerbudda 
on the west and of Orissa on the east, exclusive of the preceding 
sub-sub-area. 
Districts.— (i) The Concan. (2) Canaray North and South. 
(3) Coorg. (4) Malabar and the Nilgiris. (5) Cochin and 
Travancore. (6) The remainder of the Bombay Presidency. 
(7) The Northern drears, from the southern boundary of 
Orissa to the Godavery River. (8) The Carnaticy from the 
Godavery to the Cauvery River. (9) The districts of Coirn- 
batorCy Maduray and Tinnivelly. (10) Mysore. 
IV.— Upper Gangetic Plain. 
Districts.— (i) Agra and Oudh. (2) Bundelcund and Baghel- 
cund. 
Agra and Oudh include the whole plain from the Punjab to 
Bengal. 
