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bursting fort on bare branches.
Most of the species area decidious.
Grass and small herbs form
a ground cover among the rocks.
Near the summit the forest
becomes more dense, apparently
due to slightly more rainfall,
and evergreen fig trees are common
among other larger species.

Geology - apprantely schists
and shales.
Hot, sunny morning.

STOP 247 - S. INDIA: TIRUMALA
GRADE, 780 METERS, IV-19-62
150 species.

Located not far down-grade from
Tirumala

STOP 248 - INDIA: CALCUTTA,
5 M. V-12-62
200 specimens

A few specimens were collected
in the Botanic Garden on the
banks of the Hooghly River and
a hot, humid morning; a small
number were taken in the
Zoological Garden at Alipore.

All other specimens were

attracted to the lights of the
ship tied to a Garden
[Beach?] dock across the river
from the Botanic Garden.
The lights facing
the garden drew in most of
the specimens while those facing
the warehouses and the dense
part of the city attracted little.

STOP 299 - EAST PAKISTAN:
CHALNA, 2 M. V-24-62

Chalna is a young Pakistan
port, still in a very primitive
state, recently [born?] out of
the swampy Sunderban Country.
At this time no town exists
near the riverside moorings, though
stevedore shacks are scattered about;
cargo is shipped by barge
farther up the delta stream
to a small town with
land communications. The
ships tie up in mid river
just at the upper fringe
of the wild Sunderban jungle,
where the rice paddys have
at last penetrated the partially
flooded delta.

Two nights were spent