THE VEGETATION OF THE DISTRICTS OF 
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with mangroves and Occasionally with patches of salt- worts. At 
other times the sea-face ends in a line of sand hills with a true dune 
Vegetation. 
The plants characteristic of the mangrove belt; or of these sand- 
dunes do not extend into the central portion of oiir area; nor to any 
considerable extent do the species that are characteristic of the in- 
terior of the swamp forests. The species that throughout the Sundribun 
region are characteristic of the banks of creeks and rivers do, however,, 
in a rather marked degree continue along the banks of many nullahs 
and along those of all the larger streams to the north and west of 
the Sundribun area* On this account while we have, especially 
to the west of the Hughli, a considerable number of species that 
are truly wild in our districts which are really characteristic of the 
drier western parts of India, we also have, especially to the east 
of the Hughli, a considerable number of species that are truly wild 
in our area which are realiy characteristic of the Sundribuns. 
The majority of the Sundribun species, however, are peculiar 
and are confined to that Region, and but for the accident that the 
district of the ^g-Pergunnahs extends to the sea and so includes a 
portion of the Sundribuns, they would find no place in this list* 
The following list, corresponding to the similar list for Goghat, 
includes all the species that are confined to the Sundribun portion 
of our area : the Sundri itself, Heritiera minor, also Hibiscus 
tortuosus , Brownlowia lanceolata , Amoora cUcullata , Carapa obovata , 
Salacia prinoides , Can a valid line aba, D albergid spinosa and D t 
iortai Desmodium umbelldtum, Csesdlpinia Nuga, Rhizophora mucro- 
nata and Ah conjugal a, Ceriops Roxbiirghiana, Kan deli a Rheedei ,- 
Bruguiera gymnorhiza and B. parviflora, Lumnitzera racemosa , 
Barringtonia racemosa , Sonnefatid acid a, Ses avium Portulacas- 
frum, Plucked indie a, Launea pinnatijida , ALgi alibis rotundifolia y 
/Egiceras majus , Cerbera Odollam , Pdrsonsia spiralis, Finlay sonid 
obovata, Sarcolobus globosus and S. edrinatus , Merremia convolu - 
lacea , Ipomoea Pes-caprse, Soldnum trilob a turn, Acanthus volubilis, 
Avicennia officinalis, S use da maritima, Arthrocnemum indicum^ 
Salicornia brae hi at a, Sapiunt indicum, Nip a fruiicans , Phoenix 
paludosa , Calamus tenuis, Mdriscus albescens , Elseocharis Spiralis ^ 
Fimbristylis halo phi l a and F. subbispicata , Scirpus trigueter and S. 
lit tor alls, Oryza coarctatd, Myriostachya Wightiand, Nephrodiam 
aridum . There are also a few species 'that are only wild in our area 
because they occur as epiphytes on trees in the Western Sundribun 
forests, such as Hoya parasitica , Dendrobium anceps and D. 
Pierardi, Luisia brachystdehys, Sarcanthus insectifer, Polypodium 
