startling effect, sound and scene combining to herald my 
advance into, to me, a new world of interest and botanical 
excitement. 
R. decursiva has a very extensive range in India, com- 
mencing in the Eastern Himalaya, probably in Hastern 
Nepal; it follows that range into Assam, the Khasia and 
other hills of Eastern Bengal, ascending to about four 
thousand feet. I find no record of its existence in Burma 
and the Malayan Peninsula, nor in Central India or the 
Western Ghats, but it reappears in Ceylon at an elevation 
of two thousand to four thousand feet, and, according to 
Miquel, it is a native of Java. 
The figure here given is from a plant in the Palm House 
of Kew, that has attained a height of about thirty feet ; 
clothing the trunk of a large Livistona, which was in all 
probability obtained from the Royal Botanic Gardens of 
Calcutta.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, stamen; 3, ovary; 4, vertical, and 5, transverse section 
of ditto; 6, ovule :—ald enlarged; 7, leaf, one-fifth of the natural size. 
