Pukkee Serai is approached, when it becomes very much broken and
intersected by ravines in every direction, showing most forcibly the
action of water, many of the cliffs thus formed are picturesque. At
Pukkee a small river is forded, thence to near Puttiana the country then
becomes almost as raviny as before.

AErua, Bheir, Mudar, a Kochia, much like one of the Cutch ones, and the
before-mentioned plants continue.

_26th_.--To Bukriala, twenty-two miles. From Puttiana the road is good,
extended over a high open country, except where it crosses two ravines;
the first of these containing a stream of water, about ten miles from
Puttiana. From Tammuch the road descends steeply into the Bukriala
Kakhudd ravine, which takes you to Bukriala.

This ravine runs through a system of sandstone hills, of a blueish muddy
aspect, and red clayey earth, often conglomerate. In colours not unlike
the Bamean district. Water is plentiful in pools throughout the lower
half of the road, which is all descent. Bukriala stands on the right
bank of the Khudd river towards its mouth, the vegetation about this
place resembles that of the open country, and is unchanged in the Khudd
river, consisting of Kochia, _Phulahi_, and Mimosa albispina, Euonymus,
_Bheir_, Adhatoda, Barleria, _Kureel_, and Capparis of Gundamuck; also
Pommereullioid, Andropogon, Schoenanthus, Holcus, and Stipa of Kuta Sung,
Carallunia, Grewia and Menispermum of Manikyala.

Also two plants not before seen, and neither common, one is a Butea,
leguminous velutino pubescent arbor, it is the _Chuchra_ of the natives,
and is used for paper. The other is a curious, leafless, scandent,
monocotyledon. Asparaginea, and an Apocynea.

Alhaji Maurorum is not found between this and Hussun Abdul, which is a
curious thing.

_27th_.--To Rotas. The country to Mittian is very much broken and
consequently difficult, consisting entirely of ups and downs: the road is
only practicable for cattle; the bad part of it commences with an abrupt
ascent. About Puttiana, four miles from Bukriala, it becomes better, but
it continues partially raviny until within four miles of Rotas, when the
country becomes open, and the road good.

Vegetation continues precisely the same, being still in the region of
_Phulahi_: observed the Asparaginea again, Euonymus continues, also
Astragalus, a Kochia, and an Affghan Chenopodium.

A beautiful _bhowli_ or spring is passed on the way two miles from Rotas,