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ten from the plains of Tirhut, nine from central Bengal and nine from 
Eastern Bengal. That Behir should possess so many is due to its 
higher lands bordering on Chota Nagpur, if we add Beh^r to Tirhut 
the number common to the Nepil Cultivation belt and Behir-Tirhut 
is twenty-five, being Hypericum japonicum^ Reinwardtia trigyna^ 
heynea irijuga^ Celastrus paniculata^ Crotalaria prostrata^ Melas- 
toma malabathricum^ Lagerstrasmia parvijlora^ Woodfordia flori- 
bunda, Oldenlandia gracilis, Hamiltonia suaveolens, Vernonia teres, 
Launsea nudicaulis, Androsace saxifragae folia, Nyctanthes Arbor- 
tristis, Bothriospermum tenellum, Hemiphragma latebrosa, Lepida- 
gathis hyalina, Clerodendron infortunatum, Deeringia celosioides, 
Salix tetrasperma, Thysanolaena acarifera, Pollinia argentea, Is- 
chaemum angustifolium^ Andropogon assimilis, and Andropogon 
contortus. 
If we add together the thirty-seven plants which are of general 
distribution in Bengal and the plants which are common to the culti- 
vation belt and the other places mentioned, then 
84 or 34 per cent, are common to this belt in Nep^l and Chota 
Ndgpur. 
62 or 25 percent are common to this belt in Nep 41 and Chittagong. 
61 or 25 per cent, are common to this belt in Nepil and northern 
Bengal including the Dudrs. 
59 or 24 per cent are common to this belt in Nep 41 and the plains 
of Behir-Tirhut. 
It is certainly of interest to notice that the percentage of plants com- 
mon to the belt and Chota Nigpur is greater by 10 per cent, than the 
percentage of plants common to the belt and the plains below : this 
difference is of course doe to the elevation of the Chota Ndgpur 
plateau. It is also of interest further to note that the Du^rs and 
Chittagong have no greater percentage in common with this belt than 
have the plains below. 
In the cultivation belt may be found a very considerable number of 
plants, — nearly fifty in the above list,-— which extend southwards very 
generally throughout India. 
Montane plants of the Himalaya which extendi eastwards or 
westwards from Nepal. 
There are in the list just over one hundred and twenty montane 
plants the distfibution of which goes both eastwards and westwards 
beyond Nepdl. 
Two of these Wendlandia pendula and Senecio vagam, 
have been collected both in the central Himalaya and in the extreme 
east of the kingdom of Nepil. 
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