A NOTE 
ON 
THE BOTANY OF THE BALUCH-AFGHAN 
BOUNDARY COMMISSION. 1896, 
By F, P\ Maynard and D, Prain. 
Having been directed to join, as medical officer to the party, the 
Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission which w^as occupied from 27th 
January till 29th May 1896 in demarcating the frontier between 
Baluchistan and Afghanistan, Surgeon-Captain Maynard, I. M. S., 
before leaving Calcutta, obtained a supply of drying paper from the 
Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden, On Dr. Maynard’s return 
he made over to the Herbarium the specimens collected ; the species 
were there determined by Dr. Prain, The present note has been 
prepared jointly from Dr. Maynard’s field notes and from the deter- 
minations effected in the Herbarium, Calcutta ; it should, however, 
be understood, with reference to the opinions expressed as to the 
identity of certain species, that Dr. Prain accepts all responsibil- 
ity for the identifications, and for any deductions to which these 
may lead. For the map that accompanies the note, on the other 
hand, Dr, Maynard accepts all responsibility. 
From Gulistan, where the Commission left the railway, on ta 
Shorawuk, the country resembles the district to the south-west of 
Quetta described by Stocks in Hooker^s Journal of Botany ^ Vol. 
11, pp. 303 — 308 (1850). A very full account of the vegetation of 
the neighbouring district of Quetta itself is given by Mr, Lags in 
the Journal of the Linnean Society^ Vol. XXVllI, pp. 288—312 
(1891) 
The Shorawuk plain, immediately to the north of Nushki, is 
Afghan territory, it is quite fertile and fairly well populated, 
inhabitants occupying permanent villages. The people cultivate 
by irrigation, the water for the purpose being obtained from the 
Lora river, which ends in this plain. Wheat and barley, especially 
the latter, form the staple crops. 
The similar plain of Nushki, to the south of Shorawuk, which 
was only skirted on the outward journey, but which was traversed 
