Jhow

( "Jhow") grew in the sandy bed of the river; its flexible young branches are used in various parts of India for wattling and basket-making.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

No change in the vegetation has appeared, except in the occurrence of large tracts of Tamarisk, which tree reaches to nearly the same size as the _Jhow_.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Cultivation along the Turnuk, melons in small trenches, the crops are now cut, _Jhow_ or _gaz_ along the bank: but there is not much water.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

The vegetation elsewhere is very scanty; consisting of _Jhow_, _Bheir_,

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Along the river, _Jhow_ and _Furas_ occur, in the naked plains, Chenopodium cymbifolium, _Rairoo_, and a few _Kureel_, but they are so naked as to afford little fodder for the camels: there is a little cultivation of mustard, and _Taira meera_.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

_Jhow_ or barley is selling for ten seers the rupee, _atta_ or flour at eight.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

_Jhow_ and grass jungle continue, Tamarisk, _Furas_ fine specimens, Fumaria continues in fields,

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

The _Jhow_ has increased in size in some places as has _Sofaida_, which is occasionally a moderate tree, and it is now more advanced in flowering: the temperature having visibly increased.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

We left Hurreekee on the 8th at 10 A.M., the river up to this time (9th) presents the same monotonous appearance -- sandy banks clothed with grasses, intermixed with _Jhow_ here and there, and occasionally

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

-- Continued -- the river is very winding, and its banks present the same features: the immediate ones being covered with short _Jhow_ or grass, or both intermixed, the extreme ones well wooded, and well peopled.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith