ion, and enters another valley, the exit from which is through the
Maha Gullah: a large Serai is passed about two and a half miles from the
Boorgi; in the Gullah near this, is a portion of a formed road. Janika
Sung is a small village, about five miles from the Boorgi.

The face of the country is undulated, intersected by ravines, rather
thickly covered with the large Mimosa and _Bheir_: the same may be seen
in every direction.

Affghan plants have nearly ended, Moacurra and Euonymus alone continuing.
At the Maha Gullah a Carissa, and a _Zaitoon_, Ehretioides. This defile
is picturesque, the wood prettily contrasted with bits of grassy ground.
Adhatoda in abundance.

The Maha Gullah was formerly a notorious place for robbers, but is now
quite safe, which says much for the Seikh rule.

There was not much cultivation passed to-day, although most of the
surface is fit for it: water is near the surface. The Maha Gullah range
is composed of limestone.

The white-spined Mimosa and crooked-spined one change places, the former
occupies uncultivated plains, the latter stony, undulated, or hilly
ground.

Carissa certainly represents Jasminum.

On the Kaliki Serai plain the chief plant is Mimosa albispina, then
_Bheir_--here and there patches of Leguminosa, like the Cytisoides, so
common in Affghanistan. In the _Bheir_ thickets Schoenanthus is common;
Andropogon and Pommereullioid also occur.

In the Hussun Abdul river there is a species of Perilampus approaching to
Leuciscus, but with faint bars. In the sacred stream there is a small
Cyprinoid, probably a Systomus, with a conspicuous spot on either side
near the tail: there is also a small loach.

The Mahaseer in the water is a handsome fish, the edges of the scales
being then blackish, as is also the longitudinal line.

It is curious that all plants hitherto found parasitical on roots, have
no green leaves; to this, marked exceptions exists in Cuscuta and
Cassytha, such true-leaved parasites being found only on the ascending
axis; this rule is so permanent, that species of certain genera, such as
Burmannia, the bulk of which are not parasitical, have no leaves. The
mode of attachment of all parasitical plants is I think the same,
otherwise I should suspect the above difference to point to a marked one
in the nature of the fluid derived from the stock: thus leafless plants
might be supposed to induce no particular change in the fluid they
imbibe, while the other