NOTES 
ON A 
JOURNEY FROM HAYERI TO KUMTA 
IN 
MAY 1894. 

Haveri is a town 60 miles south of Dharwar on the Harihar 
Branch of the Southern Maratha Railway. It is on a good road 
which crosses North Kanara to Kumta on the coast. 
Near Haveri the plains of black soil, which occupy the greater 
part of the Dharwar Collectorate, change gradually into a yellowish 
loam, producing scanty crops of cotton and millet. With the excep- 
tion of stunted Babool ^ on the headlands of the fields, planted trees 
only are to be seen. The fences are chiefly of Euphorbia 
Tirucallif Linn., and Opuniia nigricans^ Haw., in them Qlax 
scandenSy Roxb., and Cadaba indica, Lamk., occur, and climbing 
over them at intervals may be seen Rivea hypocrateriformis^ Chois. 
Ipomoea sepiaria^ Koen., Asparagus racemosus, Willd., Viiis setosa 
Wall., Dasmia extensa^ Br., and other two Asclepiads, Groups of 
Balanites Roxburghii^ Planch., may be seen, and Cassia auriculata, 
Linn., is common, but at this season herbaceous vegetation is 
very scanty, being represented only by Tribulus terrestris, Linn., 
Cleome simplicifolia^ H. f. and T.* Evolvulus aisinoides, Linn., 
Withania somnifera, Dunal, and Trichodesma amplexicauley Roth. 
Of Trichodesma amplexicauley Roth. C. B. Clarke remarks, it 
is probably a mere form of 7 *. indicumy Br. The general aspect 
of r. amplexicaule while growing is very distinct ,* it is much smaller 
than T, indicumy the anthers are exserted, and have long twisted 
points; the corolla lobes are also furnished with long twisted points, 
and, as far as I have observed, there is also in Western India a 
difference in the distribution of those two species : T. amplexicaule 
occurring in the Southern Maratha country, Bijapur and Scind, but 
being absent from Poona district which Is occupied by T. indicum. 
The road runs due westward 10 miles to the village Adur, where 
^ Acacia arabica^ Willd. 
