b. Throughout this vast surface the vegetation is exactly the
same--Euonymus continuing, Peganum and _Phulahi_ forming chief
vegetation; numbers of white partridge occur.

In the plains _Dhah_ is found in profusion, especially where the
cultivation is not extensive. A new Acacia appears, the _Kikkur_,
forming groves about most of the villages. Noticed the Physaloides of
Lundykhanah. Encamped under a fine Mimosa and _Bheir_ near an old Serai
which forms part of the village, with a splendid view of the Himalayas
stretching away from east to west. It appears from this direction as if
there was only one low range between the plains and the culminating range
of the Himalayas. Nothing like these mountains has been seen in
Khorassan. The chief cultivation about here is _Nihi-joari_, then
_Bajra_--why is the former always bent?

Prickly pear common from where we crossed the Jhilun river.

A curious metamorphosis of Sesamum is of common occurrence: the calyx
being unchanged, while the corolla preserves somewhat its shape, but is
foliaceous, the other organs are much transformed, the ovary less so than
the stamina, but generally much enlarged; _ovules in leaves_ inside.
This is worthy of examination, as it shows very plainly the origin of the
stigmata from the placentae.

_30th_.--Halted owing to having been robbed of two horses.

_31st_.--Wuzerabad, twenty-four miles. Ten miles from Wuzerabad the road
extended through a highly cultivated country, and crossed the Chenab, on
the left bank of which river Wuzerabad is situated. The Chenab is a fine
river, the stream 150 yards wide, but on either side extensive beds of
sand show that the river during some seasons is of great width.

Wuzerabad is a nice well built town, having a fine straight bazaar, with
paved street. The chief gateways and residences built by General
Avitabile.

Chilodia occurs in abundance, Eleusine sp., E. coracana; _Bajra_ and
_Joari Nihi_ being the prevailing cultivation.

It is curious that in Phulahi major of Sera and the _Kikkur_, the young
branches only are armed with thorns, so that the spines must be deciduous
in certain species of Mimosa.

Cactus is an instance of a calyx composed of a congeries of adherent
leaves, which leaves produce from their axilla, tufts of white hair and
thorns; or is it not an instance of an axis hollowed out towards the
apex, to the sides of which the ovary finally adheres, in this case the
outermost series of