Records of the Botanical Survey of India. The Vegetation of the District of Minbu in Upper Burma

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Records of the Botanical Survey of India. The Vegetation of the District of Minbu in Upper Burma

1904

While there the writer also called upon the Director of Land Records and Agriculture and upon the Revenue Secretary by both of whom he was provided with letters of intoduction by the former to the Deputy Commissioner of Minbu and to the Superintendent of Land Records there by the tatter to the Deputy Conservator of Forests. [...] The Man irrigated tract is bounded on the south by the Man river on the east by the part of the Irawaddy alluvial belt between the Man and Mon rivers ; on the north partly by the Mon river for a very short distance but chiefly by the low hills south of the Mon ; on the west by the low hill s of the desert zone which ultimately approach close to the north bank of the Man river. [...] The alluvial belt vegetation is prolonged along the banks of the three rivers of the district where the dry hills of the desert zone do not approach the banks and cut it off. [...] In the Mon valley between the Nwamadaung hills and the Arracan Yomahs there is a mixed sort of vegetation partaking of the characters of the desert zone and of the alluvial belt. [...] It is conceivable that the Indo-African element in the Minbu desert zone is but the remnant of a flora once common to both Peninsulas and Africa but driven northwards by the breaking up of land surfaces in the Eastern Peninsula and the consequent change of climate from dry to moist in the southern half of the Burma-Malaya Peninsula.18 THE VEGETATION OF THE DISTRICT OF This however is mere specu
agriculture environment
Pages
156
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100173
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv A. T. Gage view
Chapter I.—Itinerary
1-4 A. T. Gage view
Chapter II.—Topography of the District
4-7 A. T. Gage view
Chapter III.—Sketch of the Vegetation
7-19 A. T. Gage view
Chapter IV.—Systematic Census
19-131 A. T. Gage view
Chapter V.—Economic and Medicinal
131-141 A. T. Gage view
Index
i-vii A. T. Gage view

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