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concrete oil from its fruit. The rosin which exudes from the 
wounded Pinus longifolia, is exported to the plains under the 
name of gundabirosa, and by distillation from it very good 
oil of turpentine is obtained. 
- *] lately ascended a mountain which rises from the frontier 
river to the height of 8160 feet; it was in November, an un- 
favourable time for observing its vegetable productions, yet the 
scale on which Rhododendrons grew near the top, attracted my 
notice, and they seem more at home at that elevation than with 
us. Oaks, too, were gigantic; a Rubus and Bamboo we also 
noticed, which are unknown here. The last, which seldom 
attains the girth of the little finger, is used for mats and 
baskets. The Daphne and Chirayita were in great perfection ; 
but I mention this journey that I might introduce a very 
curious circumstance. While we were scrambling over icy 
. rocks, certainly more than 7000 feet above the sea, I was 
astonished to see fine Palms scattered here and there, far 
above the region of firs, among oaks and hoar-frost! they 
were of a respectable height, perhaps 24 feet, with the flabelli- 
form leaves of the Borassus flabelliformis of the plains, or toddy- 
tree, and to my eye they differed in no degree from that tree, 
which luxuriates in the hot plains of Bengal, and of which I 
had not seen a single specimen since entering the hill pro- 
vinces—can it be the same? If it be, I suppose it a singular 
case of a palm being indigenous in Bengal, with a mean 
annual temperature of 78? and upwards, and also in a bleak 
mountainous situation, where the annual mean cannot reach 
94^. I know of no palms with fan-shaped leaves, except 
the toddy-tree, and some of very diminutive size, which may 
account for my pnm it a Borassus." | 
_ NEW WORK ON CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY. 
[We have pleasure in mentioning, that W. H. Harvey, Esq. of Sum- 
merville, near Limerick, is preparing a work, to be published in monthly 
numbers, on the new or little known Cryptogamic Plants of the British 
Isles: the drawings and engravings, as well as descriptions, will be entirely 
executed by himself; and from our knowledge of Mr. Harvey's zeal and 
acquirements, we can confidently recommend it to Botanists.] 
