8 RECORDS OF THE BOANICAL sURVEY or INDIA. 
exceedingly well expressed by Wight and Arnott in the preface to their 
“Prodromus” and as I thoroughly agree with their conclusions, I have 
given, with a very few exceptions, only such vernacular names as I have 
myself obtained and tested in the Anaimalais, The exceptions are those 
names to be found in Beddome’s “Flora Sylvatica ” 
beyond doubt to our area, ; 
____ Character of the Flora.—The flora of the Anaimalais partakes of both 
the Malabar and the Dekkan. regions, as described by Sir J. D. Hooker 
in his “Sketch of the Flora of British India ” in the Imperial Gazetteer. 
The first is represented in 
the evergreen forests and their vicinity in 
"the zones of heavy rainfall, _ : : : 
The Coromandel sub-region of the Dekkan region is found in the 
inextensive, low-lying tract in the eastern extremity; and the Mysore 
sub-region on the northern, fairly dry slopes between 1,000 and 1,500 feet, 
when they refer 
plains upwards the types are as follows :— 
1. The dry, semi-desert type, which oceu 
in the Amaravati valley and extends 
hills between elevations of 900 and 1, 
18 to 21 inches (see Plate yy . 
_ ‘Itis characterised by such plants as: 
Coceulus pendulus Diels, Polycarpaea corymbosa Lam., Portulaca 
Wightiana Wall, {among rocks), Paronia py 
“Berryi Engl., Pyrenacanthus volubilis 
_ Wail., Rothia trifoliata Pers., Crotalaria medicaginea Lam,, , Indigofera 
marginulata Grah., Pterolodi Rich., 
Wild., Acacia planifrons W. & 
: & A. Dichrostachys cinerea W. & A, 
Vahlta viscosa. Roxb., an abunda punt 
pies the low eastern region 
more or less along the foot of the 
500 feet. The rainfall averages from 
\., Spheranthus amaran- 
Salvadora persica -Linn., 
Jatropha Wightiana Muell-Arg., Perotis latifolia Ait,, and Oropetium 
Thomeum Trin, ~ whee 5 ae 
_ Along streams the following “speci b 
*: 
se ae zi otter types. and 
elevations intrade : 238 oe a a 
