Dr. Wallich remarks, in a communication with which 
he has favoured us, and from which the above description 
is extracted, that “ This stately and ornamental species 
grows wild in the valley of Nipal, and among the surround- 
ing mountains. It is also found in the province of Kamoon. 
It was introduced into the Calcutta Garden in 1817, by 
the Honourable Edward Gardner, resident at the Court 
of Katmandoo. It is in blossom and ripens its fruit 
almost all the year round.” 
Our drawing was made in August last, from a plant in 
the Garden of the Horticultural Society, to which establish- 
ment it had been presented by the Honourable Court of 
Directors of the East India Company. 
It appears, from an Indian drawing made under Dr. 
Wallich's direction, that in its native country it becomes a 
much larger plant than that from which the accompanying 
figure was taken, with a wide branching panicle, and broad 
furfuraceous or pruinose truncate bractex. 
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