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The Goghat sub-division which, as has been explained, belongs 
to Western rather than Central Bengal, is as closely cultivated as the 
main portion of our area. The village-shrubberies are, however, less 
extensive and the species characteristic of roadsides and such waste 
places as exist include not a few that are unknown elsewhere in our 
area; Cissampelos Pareira, Polycarpsea corymbosa , Salomonia 
oblongifolia , Ventilago maderaspatana , Desmodium heterophyllum) 
Cassia Absus, Drosera Burmanni, W ' endlandia exserta> Morinda 
citri folia, Cyathocline lyrata , Gnaphalium pulvinatum , Holarrhena 
ant id y sen teric a, Mitrasacme alsinoides , Heliotropium ovalifolium , 
Striga lutea ) Striga euphrasioides , Gmelina arbor ea^ Moschosma 
polystachyum, Leucas mollissima, Commelina attenuata , Juncus pris- 
matocarpus, Courtoida cyperoides, Fimbristylis argentea, Panicum 
psilopodium, Digit aria pedicellaris , Tragus racemosus , Andropogon 
brevifolius , A. pertusus , Iseilema laxum , Aristida Adscencionis, 
Polypogon monspeliensiSy Arundinella Wallichii, Eragrostis coarc- 
tata , Chloris virgata ; also as cultivated species, Papaver somni- 
ferum , Guizotia abyssinica and Hordeum vulgare exhaust the list 
of species that are only known from Goghat. 
It has, however, to be remarked that a very considerable number 
of species which are only certainly known to the wmiter to occur, 
within our area, in Goghat west of the Dvvarkeswar river have been 
reported from Serampore by Voigt. We know, however, from various 
passages in Voigt’s Hortus that some at least of the plants he 
records were obtained, not by Voigt but by native collectors sent 
out by Carey or by himself, and it is, therefore, not improbable that 
these collectors in their search for additional species at times visited 
the corresponding country further south. This is rendered still more 
probable from the fact that Voigt’s Serampore list includes not a 
few plants that have not been obtained even in Goghat and that we 
know to be strangers to or only casuals in the Gangetic delta. 
A very noticeable feature in the list of these western, dry country 
species from Goghat is the number of species of grasses to be found 
there that do not grow on the mud of the delta. The vegetation 
of Goghat is in fact that characteristic of South Behar or Western 
Bengal, with which it is proposed to deal in a subsequent paper, 
and is quite different from that of the Delta. 
The Western Sundribuns, or the swamp forest region of the 
24-Pergunnahs, is covered throughout with a rather low forest for 
the most part unbroken, though here and there patches covered with 
tall grasses are interspersed, and towards the sea-face there occur 
at intervals considerable stretches of muddy shore sparingly wooded 
