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BOTANICAL TOUR IN CHAMBA AND KANGRA/ 
Linn., and Hibiscus pungens, Roxb., are all met with in the warmer 
valleys. 
Hibiscus cannabinuSy Linn., is cultivated up to 5,000 feet. 
Cossypium herbaceuntf Linn., is also cultivated. 
Bombax malabaricum^ DC. ’There are a few good trees of 
this in tLe vicinity of the town of Chamba, but it does not extend 
upwards beyond 3,000 feet, 
Tiliacese^ 
Grewia oppositifolia^ Roxb. A small tree, occurring up to 7,000 
feet, found near villages where it is probably preserved for the sake 
of its fruit. 
Triumfetta pilosa Roth., and T rhomboidea, Jacq., are comimon 
on banks and waste places at low levels. 
Corchorus trilocularis^ Linn., and C, acutangulus^ Lam., are fre^ 
quently seen in fields of maize, etc. 
Linese. 
Reinwardtia tri^yna^ Planch., is a very common undershrub on 
sunny slopes up to 6,000 feet. 
Zygophylleas, 
Tribulus terrestris, Linn., grow? prostrate in pastures at low 
elevations. 
Geraniacede, 
Geranium W allichianum^ Sweet., G nepalense^ Sweet., and a few 
other species are all characteristic plants of the upper forests but 
are also to be seen in suitable localities much lower. 
Oxalis corniculata^ Linn., is a creeping weed in sandy spots up 
to 5,000 feet. 
Imp'itiens Balsamina^ Linn., /. Thomsoni^ Hook, f., /. sulcata 
Wall., l,scabrida^ DC,, /. Edgew., and many others, 
grow gregariously in moist shady ravines. 
Rutacese, 
Bosnninghausenia albifloray Rcichb., is an herb with white 
flowers ranging upwards to 8,000 feet, 
Zanthoxylum alatum, Roxb. Is a small thorny tree, very fetid 
when bruised. It is abundant on the slopes running down to the 
banks of the Ravi at 3,000 to 5,oco feet. 
