1903.] D. PrsAn—Novicias Indica, XX. 89 



best resisted attacks and introducing them to the cultivator. That this 

 system should be followed both in the case of seeds and plants and that 

 great results might be expected from work of this nature. 



4. An ancient Assamese Fortification and the legends relating thereto. 

 — By WaLter N. Edwards and H. H. Mann. 



(Abstract.) 



The paper describes the occurrence on the banks of theBuroi River, 

 a tributary of the Brahmaputra from the North, in Assam, of an ancient 

 Assamese fortification consisting of two walls, the longer one about three 

 hundred yards long, and ten feet thick, built of faced stone, and facing 

 the plains. These occur in dense cane jungle, just beyond British 

 territory, in the Daphla country in the Himalayas. The Assamese 

 origin of the fortifications is indicated by the type of brick with which 

 the stones are occasionally mixed. 



The local Daphla story attached to the fortification is that an 

 Assamese Raja went into the hills and there defended himself from his 

 own people in the plains, but no time or date is assigned, even vaguely, 

 to it. 



The whole consideration of the local traditions lead the authors to 

 connect it with the fate of Arimatta, or Arimuri. (cir. 1250 A.D.) the 

 local story of whose life is given, but about whose ultimate fate the 

 traditions among the natives on the spot differ considerably. 



5. Noviciae Indict, XX. Some additional Soroplmlarinese. — By 



D. Prain. 



(Abstract.) 



The writer, having had to assort the Indian material of Scrophul- 

 arinese in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden at Shibpur, 

 finds that, owing to extensions of territory on both the North- Western 

 and the North-Eastern frontiers of the Indian Empire, a number of 

 species have now to be accounted for as Indian that are not dealt with 

 in the Flora of British India. Following the practice which he com- 

 menced fifteen years ago, when this series of papers was begun, 

 the writer now offers descriptions of the species that are new to India, 

 arranged as nearly as possible after the manner of the Flora itself, 

 to which the papers of this series are intended as supplements. These 

 descriptions will necessarily benefit chiefly those members of the 

 Society who may be botanising near the various Indian Frontiers ; 

 to render the paper of use to other botanical members as well, new 

 localities are indicated for species that are already dealt with in the 

 Flora. 



