ct pointing
out its northern qualifications, although in form it is very like a
Mergui Dodonea.

_24th_.--A clear day after a night of heavy rain, still no appearance of
settled weather; walked in the afternoon towards the Dhurrah at the south
side of the valley. The bouldery slope presented an abrupt bank of a
considerable angle, and its limits were most marked from that of the
tillable soil; as we approached the foot of the ghat, the fragments
became larger, they are angular, and have been little if at all worn;
thence I walked eastwards to a small isolated ridge of limestone, perhaps
a mile from the foot of the boundary chain, and returned to camp. In
this direction, which is that of the torrents, occasionally rushing out
of the Dhurrah, the transition between the mountain slope, and the
tillable soil, was gradual, the action of water carrying farther down
small fragments, and turning some of the fields into a sandy shingly
soil: the depth of the beds of these torrents here, is perhaps four feet,
the section being a mass of very unequal fragments.

I am not certain whether these fragments are derived from the mountains
or not, they seem to be too varied, and too widely spread for that,
although the course of the occasional torrents must vary very much.

Another puzzling thing is, that in the section afforded by the ditch of
the fort, and which is seventeen feet deep, the shingle underlies the
tillable soil.

The vegetation of the slopes here partakes of the nature of the Khyber
pass, the prevailing feature consists in coarse tufts of Andropogonous
grasses, Lycioides occurs, also Periplocea, also Cryptandoid, Euonymus,
these are on the cliffy ridge of limestone alluded to, 2 sp. of
Astragalus, Solanum jacquini? Schaenanthus, Sedoides pictum very common,
a small fern, apparently a Cryptogramma, Grimonia, Tortula, a Bryum,
three or four lichens, one Marchantiacea found under boulders or in
crevices of rocks, one Salsola, Fagonia, Dianthoid, Statice common,
Onosma, Artemisia one or two, a large Cnicoid.

The only new feature is a shrubby dwarf fragrant Composita, foliis albis
subobovatis, dentatis grossiusculi margine revolutis.

_24th_.--A break after a very wet night, cloudy throughout the day.

_25th_.--A fine day, particularly towards evening, beautifully clear.

_26th_.--No rain, but very cloudy, cold north-east wind.

_27th_.--Rain very threatening, a disgusting country in which it is
impossible to take