6 DR. Anderson's enumeration or 



tan, and Chittagong. Sikkim is the most western district in 

 which it occui's. The plant is well known to the Lepchas, who 

 call it " Khur ;" but they make no use of any part of it. Areca 

 disticTia^ Roxb., is said to occur in Sikkim ; but I have never met 



with it. 



Wallichia, Roxh. 



1. W. OBLoxGiFOLiA, Griff, Calcutta Journ, of Nat, Hist. v. p. 486; 

 Palms of British East India, p. 175, tab. 237 a, b, c. 



+ 



Hal). In all the tropical valleys of Sikkim. 



This little Palm is abundant in all the tropical valleys of 

 Sikkim, where it usually grows under the shade of rocks or trees. 

 It seems to prefer a soil composed of disintegrated micaceous 

 shale. It ranges in altitude from 400 to 3000 feet above the sea. 

 It is found along the lower ranges of the Himalaya, and in the 

 valleys of the great feeders of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, 

 from Assam to Kumaon, where its western limit is attained in 

 the valley of the Surjoo. 



2. W. DiSTiCHA, T. Anders, Caule elato parce sobolifero, foliis dis- 

 tichis, pinnis fasciculatis hasi conduplicatis, spadicibus terminalibus 



r 



demum lateralibus, spathis basilaribus profunde fissis, baccis apice ob- 

 scure bifidis vel raro trifidis, dispermis, rarissime trisperniis. 



Hab. In pracrnptis siccis vallium profundamm Sikkimensium, proesertim 

 exterioruiB, ad altitudinem 300-1500 ped. 



Caadex 10-15 pedes alius, 5-6 uncias erassus, nudus, cinereus, a lapsu 

 frondium annulatus. Fo/ia alterua, erecta, 6-10 pedes longa. Petto- 

 lus basi cum reti rigido, eaulem amplectens. Rachis utrinque convexa. 

 PinntB suberectae, 2-8 fasciculataj, lineari-lanceolatae,apiee truncatse vel 

 cuneata;, fimbriato-dentatse, margiuibus ad apicem remote denticulatis, 

 supra virides, subtus albidse, glaucae, uninerviaj, 1-2 pedes longa?, 

 2-2^ uncias latse. Spadix foemineus pendulus, 6-8 pedes longus, 

 racbi cinereaj 3 unc. erassa; rami siraplices, sinuati, apice attenuati, 

 glabri, atro- virides vel nigri. Spathce fibroso-coriaeeae.' Sepala et 

 petala persistentia, submembranacea, glabra. Bacca oblonga, basi 

 calyce et corolla persistentibus suifulta, glabra, rubescens, 9 lin. 

 longa. Pulpa vix ulla, urens. Embryo dorsalis, excentricus. Al- 

 bumen planum. 



The appearauce of this Palm is very peculiar, from the manner 

 in which the leaves are ranged along two opposite sides of the 

 stem, as in Havenala, 



I have found this Palm growiug gregariously, but very locally, 

 on the steep sandstone declivities in the deep valleys of Eastern 

 Sikkim J between tlie rivers Mahanuddee and Teesta. The Lepchus 



