USEFUL PLANTS OF THE DISTRICT OF LAKHIMPUR 
IN ASSAM. 
BY 
Humphrey G. Carter , m.b ch.b., 
Economic Botanist to the Botanical Survey of India, 
and 
Horine N. Carter. 
INTRODUCTION 
mHE district of Lakhimpur forms part of the great Indo-G art get io 
plain, and occupies the extreme north-east corner of Assam in 
the angle between the eastward extension of the Himalayas and the 
range of mpnatate running between Assam and Burma. Lakhimpur 
has a moftspou climate, with a rainfall everywhere over 100 inches per 
annum. 
In 1801 Mr. G. A. Gammie made a botanical tour in the district* 
and published a short general account of its vegetation in No. 5 of Yol. 1 
of the Becords of the Botanical Survey of India. The present paper 
is restricted to an account of the plants — -apart from staple crops and 
forest trees— -used for various purposes by the inhabitants of the 
district. The specimens and information on which this paper is based 
were collected during two tours made in the spring and autumn of 
191 5. The itinerary of those tours is as follows : — 
8th to 12th March, 1915 . . Dibrugarh and neighbourhood. 
14th „ 17tli Marghcrita, Ledo and neighbourhood. 
19tb „ 24th „ „ Dibrugarh and the islands in the river Brahmaputra, 
25th „ 28th „ „ . . Jokai jungles. 
29tb March, 1915 * • . Dibrugarh. 
31st March and 1st April, 1915 . Jaipur jungles and villages. 
3rd to 7th April, 1915 , . DibrugdVh villages and jnngles. 
8th „ 10th* „ „ • « Saikhoa Ghat jungles. 
14th October^ 1915 . . Arrived iu Dibrugarh. 
15th to 21st October, 1915 . . Dibrugarh and surrounding villages. 
24th „ 28th ,, . . Sadiva. 
30th October to 2nd Nov.. 1915 . Dibrugarh neighbourhood. 
5th to lOtb November, 1915 • North Lakhimpur villages and jungles, 
lltb November, 1915 . • Laluk. 
12th „ „ . . . Badoti. 
The information which will be found in small type after the purely 
botanical matter about each plant, has been collected almost entirely 
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