There are no wild trees to be found, excepting perhaps an elegant species of willow.  The vegetation of the fields is highly interesting, consisting of many European forms, similar to those at Nowshera—­Avena, Phleum, Polygonium, Zanthoxyloid, Erodium!  Anagallis in abundance, Plantago, Pecagee, Cynodon two species, Andropogon, Melilotus, Medicago, Boraginea, Malva, Tetragonolotus, Astragaloides, Sperguloides, Cruciferae.

In the bed of the river Nerium, Paederioides, Crotalaria, etc. of which the former is common every where:  Fagonia, Viola found in the bed of the river crossed en route hither, a very curious plant.  Antirrhenoid was brought from the hills by Capt.  Sanders, singular in the inequality of the calyx and the great development of the posticous sepal.

Altogether this spot is curious in regard to vegetation, for the mean annual temperature must be high, and the winter temperature by no means low enough to account for the appearance presented.

The only novel birds are a jackdaw, with the voice and manners of the red-billed Himalayan species, and which I have only seen at a distance, and a different sort of Pterocles.

11th.—­Proceeded to Drubbee, eight miles from Dadur, and about three within the range of hills, the plain towards which is rather elevated, and generally covered with boulders and shingle.  The vegetation of this shingly plain is much the same, Chenopodium, Ukko, Salsola, Kureel, Rairoo; the most common shrubby plant, however, is an elegant Mimosa, much like the Babool, with white thorns; Nerium oleander is also very common along cuts.

In some wheat fields I procured Imperata, a new Plantago, and a curious Gnaphalium.  The entrance to the pass is gradual; the hills almost entirely bare.  I noticed Rairoo, Salvadora, Kureel.  The most novel plant is a curious, erect, bushy, thorny Convolvulus, which is one of the most common plants farther in.  The pass to Drubbee is wide, say 300 yards; the only obstacle exists in the shingle, which renders the road heavy.  No abutments are present, jutting out from the hills, the stream is considerable but easily fordable, and abounds with fish, the Mahaseer, and two or three species of Gonorhynchus.  The hills about Drubbee are not more than 500 feet high.  They are generally of a coarse breccia, the component parts principally limestone; abundance of nummulites.  The chief vegetation of the pass is one or two Andropogoneous grasses, and Apocynum nerioides.  There is absolutely no fodder for camels, which however, take readily to grass.  Towards the mouth of the pass, Paederia involucrata, Villarsia, Lycioid, Stenophyllum and Ukko are common, but they are rare inside, although the last continues some distance up the hills and attains a large size, becoming quite arboreous.  A Crucifera, a rhubarby sorrel, a Goodyera, and one or two grasses, were the only additional novelties met with.