Perilampus.—­Intestines shorter than the body, having at the lower end a short curve; above green, from lateral line downwards silvery.

Moh.—­A Siluroid fish, does not attain the size of the real Moh, which is a higher or deeper formed fish.

Tengrei.—­Silurus platycephalus.  Attains a very large size.

Gudha.—­A Percoid.  Colour irregular brown, mouth very protractile.

Gughal.—­Ophiocephalus, a handsome fish, back rich greenish, mottled brown, with 3 or 4 black spots on the sides, which are yellow, passing off into white, and a peacock spot on the tail.  Fins spotted with white:  it reaches a large size.

Bham.—­Macrognathus, body eel-shaped, with a row of movable spines along the back.

About Loodianah, the Naiad of Affghanistan, Monandra, stigmatibus reniformibus, is common in the Nullah, so also is Butomus begonifolius, but this may be a leafless form of Sagittaria.

Towards Roopur, Sissoo becomes more and more common.  Roopur is a largish town, with a Seikh pucka fort on a mound.  The fort is surrounded by a dry ditch.  The town is situated on a low, rather rugged ground, forming the first elevations of the surface towards the Himalayas; beyond it to the north-east is a low spur, also to the west a similar spur, very barren, rugged, clayey rock forming the immediate bank of the river.  Every thing assimilates to the Bukriala and Jhilun ranges.  Saccharum, Moong, as before, Bheir likewise occurs.

Phoenix, Dalbergia sissoo, Ficus, Adhatoda, Boerhaavia scandens, Hyperanthera, Morus, Apluda, Tamarisk, Riccia, Ammannia, Euphorbia antiquorum, Cactus, and Dodonaea, form the chief vegetation.

Some rapids occur near the Bungalow:  the strongest is under a cliff on the opposite side; no fish rose to red or black hackle or orange flies, all which were tried in vain in the deep still water close under Bungalow.  The plants of this place are Guilandina, Grewia arbuscula in fruit, Justicia, Bheir, Neem, Mango, Parkinsonia, the latter rare.

Fish caught in net are Mullet, this fish is very active, and escapes by jumping over.  Silurus, Mahaseer, several of the latter taken at a haul, the largest 10 lbs., it is a beautiful fish with golden sides, scales black, with the anterior half bluish-black, posterior half tawny-yellow, fins orange, lips very thick and leathery; it lives half or three-quarters of an hour after it is taken out of its element.

The Nepura of the natives, Gobio malacostoma, or Rock Carp of Gray, Hardwicke’s Illustrations, is the puhar-ka muchee of these parts:  it has the base and edges of the scales dull greenish-blue, fins dusky, a transverse pink line across the scales; the length of the intestines is twenty-two and a half times that of the body, filled with mud and coloured pulp, stomach continuous with the intestine, and more fleshy, filled with green and whitish pulp, and disposed in longitudinal folds.