NOTES ON A JOURNEY FROM HAVERI TO KUMTA, 
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perfume and large glossy leaves together with the prolonged flowering 
season of this plant make it a desirable tree for large gardens or parks. 
Although, as its name implies, it is a marsh tree, it thrives on well- 
drained land with a heavy rainfall. Here also, the Koomba} of the 
Marathas occurs and continues till near the coast ,* it was festooned 
with the dried vines and fruit of Dioscorea oppositifolia^ Linn. 
This place is about 5 miles from Sumasgi on the border of North 
Kanara, The land is high and uncultivated and the jungle sparse ; 
the grass land has a brown loamy soil about 2 feet in depth, and the 
altitude is about 2,500 feet. Would such land suit Agave sisilana ? 
This plant promises to become an important fibre crop, and the earlier 
that suitable land for it is selected the better. Here also Bassi'^ 
longifolia^ Linn., is met with and ^gle marmehs, Corr. (with a 
platform built round it as is usual with sacred trees) in company with 
Sissumy^ Kursing} Heerda^^ and Garuga pinnatay Roxb. Biboas 
with Loranthus loniceroides^ Linn., on it, Rhus parvifloray Roxb. and 
Holarrhena antidysentericay Wall In the tank at Sumasgi, the Sola 
plant, ji^schynomene aspera^ Linn, is to be seen ; it has not hitherto 
been admitted to our loc^ floras, although it is abundant at Hangal, 
a few miles northward where it is called Bhendy and is used as buoys 
for swimming The fringed* marsh flower also occurs here, its leaves 
resembling those of a Nymphsfay the floating }ussi 3 eay w'hite and red 
NympseaSy are abundant, in company with Ceratophyllum demersumy 
Linn., Oxalis corniculatay Linn., Aponogeton monostachyumy Linn.^ 
Panicum interruptunty Willd , and Hydrilla verticillatay Casp., the 
latter as usual very abundant, but Chara fragilis searched for in 
vain. The latter plant has recently been njaking itself remarkable; 
for many years previous to 1887 it was superabundant near Poona ; but 
at that date it disappeared suddenly, and is now as far as is known 
only to be found in Western India at Rutnagiri and at F 3 odeIi in 
Guzerat, The grand flow^ering climber, Ipomsea campanulatay Linn, 
now became abundant and continued many miles towards the coast. 
Here bamboos are planted on the road -sides, Pterocarpus indicus 
Willd. is common, and isolated trees of Cassia Fistulay Linn, 
were conspicuous by their yellow blossoms. At this part the road is 
high, and the view westward to the horizon is a weaving sea of tree 
tops. Near the road are grand specimens of Schrebera swieten- 
ioideSy Roxb., (here called Mokha) and Phyllanthus distichusy 
Mueil , looking very strange in the" twilight with its folded leaves — a 
’ Catena arboreay Roxb. 
® Stereospetmum xylocatpurtty Wight 
* Semecarpus Anacardiuniy Lf. 
* Dalbergia laiifolia, Roxb. 
* T^fminalia Chebula, Retz. 
* Limnanthtmum indicuniy Thw. 
