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NOTES FROM A JOURNEY TO NEPAL. 
C. ca/yctna, the Malvaceae St da cordifoUuy S. carpinijolia^ Hibiscus 
cancel I atus^dJid. Urena lobata^ the Tiliacea Triumfetta rhomboidea^ 
Asparagus racemosus, Rungia parvtflora, Trichodesma indicum^ 
Anisomeles ovata and a plant which appears to be an Alptnta, 
It will be noticed at once that this is a vegetation mainly composed 
of common weeds of India. 
The sunlight gets to this vegetation the more readily in November 
and December because some trees are then becoming bare, 
Dillenia^ Sp'ondtas axillaris^ and Hymen edict yon excelsum. 
Where we meet with sal at Adbabhir, Lugger a flava and 
Symplocos spicata suddenly become abundant ; and nearer to the 
hills is plenty of Nyctanthes Arbor^tristis. These plants with 
Antidesma diandruniy Vernonia teres t and Clausena pentaphylla are 
characteristic of the s 41 forest. 
Looking through the sal trees with one^s eye at about the level of 
the top of the undergrowth, Thespesia LampaSy Rivea ornata, Aspara^ 
gus racemosuSf and Grewia hirsuta chiefly attracted notice. 
The leaves of Antidesma diandrunp' in December go red. There 
were no other red leaves in the forest, but J^llow dying leaves were 
plentiful. 
Pine- woods of the south face of the foot hills. 
The road very gently ascends through the forest to Bichiakoh at 
the foot of the hills and then taking to the wide shingly bed of the 
stream ascends the Chorea Ghdti to a pass at 2,000 feet. The hills are 
in their lower parts of sandstone with rounded stones or above of con- 
glomerate : they are cut into knife-edge ridges on which Rinus longi* 
foliUi Terminalia tomentosa and Shorea robusta (sil) grow in a loose 
forest out of 2-3 feet high grass. No place except the river margin 
is level ; and late in the dry weather the well-drained slopes must be 
very dry ; Dalbergia Stssoo grows along the sides of the stream and 
makes islands in it. On the margin of the river bed "Was a vegetation 
of Some slight luxuriance, where the yellow flowers of Reitma^dtia 
trigyna made a brave show ; and with it were in plenty the large- 
flowered Lindenbergia grandiflora, Saurauja nepalensisy Inula 
CappUy and Leucas mollisnma, A remark which must be made 
regarding Inula Cappa, is that my specimens are exactly the Inula 
eriophora of De Candolle, which is reduced in the Flora of British 
India td Inula CappUy but is probably a good variety. I found it 
plentiful over nearly the whole of the march between Bichiakoh and 
Heftdunda and doubtless in the very places where Wallich collected 
the type of Inuhi eriophora. 
