the Terai up towards Kursiong to about 3000 ft. ; and 

 in the IOiasia Mountains at Joowye about 4000 ft. ; 

 and at Nowgong, and I have seen it plentifully elsewhere in 

 those regions. The drawing here given was made from Sikkim 

 plants sent to Kew by the late Dr. Anderson when superin- 

 tendent of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, and which first 

 fruited in July, 1873. 



Desce. Stem stout, one to three feet long, prostrate, as 

 thick as the thumb. Leaves subdistichous, one and a half 

 to two feet long, by one to two broad, curved, keeled, apex 

 in the young plants suddenly, in the older more gradually 

 drawn out into a sharply spinulose tip often two to three 

 inches long ; marginal spines distant. Fruit as large as 

 the fist ; shortly pcduncled, suberect ; of about one hundred 

 and fifty drupes. Drupes two-thirds of an inch long, sides 

 angular, top hemispherical, with an abrupt median nail-] ike 

 claw a quarter of an inch long, which is acute, :2 -toothed or 

 forked at the apex, and is very hard, horny and shining ; 

 the drupes are 1 -celled and i-seeded. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Apex of leaf; 2, a pair of drupes -.—both enlarged. 



