Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1863

The following meagre sketch of the Iflora of Behar and Parasnath and the list of species collected in the Province are founded on the results of these botanical investigations. [...] The mass of the mountain is not extensive but judging from the character of the vegetation on its slopes the mountain must exert a considerable influence on the amount of moisture in the atmosphere. [...] As the sides of the mountiiin are appiloached the forest becomes denser the trees:larger and the number of species more abundant than around the base Terebinthacea and Legumnova are by - far the commonest orders and of the latter the genera 2 B 292 On the Flora of Behar and the mountain Parasnath. [...] The fact of a few peculiar genera and species being common to both these Floras is of more importance as a proof of the affinity of the vegetation of the two regions than deductions drawn from the excess of certain orders. [...] The materials of the entire Flora of Behar are the basis of the tables.