PLANTS OF. NORTHERN GUJARAT. 
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a suggestion and it would be outside the scope of this paper to discuss 
the point any further. Suffice it to say that the area worked by us 
is only a very small fraction of the region defined as North Gujarat 
above. And the title of this paper is not intended to imply that the 
list of planis given below is in any way a complete flora of any region. 
The area worked will now be more fully described. 
3. The Area worked— Topography and Soil. 
The attached map shows the north-east portions of the Ahmedahad 
District, consisting of the Talukas of Daskroi North and South, the 
Taluka of Prantij and the Mahal or Petha of Modasa, with the adjaeent 
portions of Native States. It will be seen that Prantij and Modasa 
form noto ne or two, but many islands of British possession amid a sea 
of foreign territory. Of this foreign territory some parts belong to 
Baroda, others to Idar, and others again to the heterogeneous mass of 
small States that constitute the Mahi Kantha Agency.* All this is 
within the limits of the Bombay Presidency for the purposes of the 
Botanical Survey and of Northern Gujarat as tentatively defined above. 
The Idar State runs some considerable way north beyond the limits of the 
map, and there is no doubt a rich haul awaiting any botanist who will 
explore as far north as Khed Brahma, the terminus of the Ahmedabad- 
Pranti j Railway,— rich in the sense that he will add to the Bombay 
flora many Rajputana and North Indian species. 
Our own explorations have been for obvious reasons confined to 
British territory. But the foreign territory included in the map has 
been repeatedly traversed though not camped in. It differs in no way 
from the other and the floras of both are identical. The areas specially 
worked and alluded to in the list are as follows (1) Ahmedabad and 
its immediate environs, (2) Prantij, (&) Talod, (4) Sonasan, (5) Bavsar, 
(6) Ghadi, (7) Raipur, (8) Raesan, (9) Modasa, (10) Dhansura, 
(11) Watrak R., by which is meant the point of intersection of that 
river and tli3 provincial road running south from Modasa, (12) a 
plateau or upland of red laterite just east of Talod, and (Ifl) Khara- 
ghoda. Some of these places have been more thoroughly worked than 
others. They are ail marked on the map and their position in the 
general configuration and surface geology of the country will now be 
explained. 
Excluding Kharaghoda, which lies at a distance from the rest, it will 
be seen that the general slope of the land is steadily from north-east to 
* Tfe name Mahi Kantha is misleading as the territories under tho Agency nowhere touch 
the river Mahi. 
