$7925 the horns of the arnée. 267 
and your friends to try the Turkith bonnet in any 
way you please, I fhall send some of the seeds early: 
in the spring to sow in Scotland, although at. present 
they cannot be had till the gourd. is gradually dried 
to make the seeds more surely productive.” 
I fhall expect the seeds of this beautiful plant. 
with impatience, which I fhall take pleasure to distri- 
bute among such friends and subscribers:as are cu-. 
ridus in vegetable productions. 
FARTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATE,. 
Horns of the arnee. 
Fig. C represents an accurate front view of the 
horns of the young arzee, or great Indian buffalo meh? 
tioned in page 193 of this volume, drawn on a scale so 
large, as to give a clear idea of the peculiarities that 
distinguifh that horn from all others: D is a 
back view of the same, and F a section of the 
horn near its base; the flat side being the front-of 
the horn, and the ridge running along the outside, as 
represented'in the figure. A more minute descrip- 
tion is unnecefsary. 
The animal to which these horns belonged, seems 
to have been only about two years old when it was 
killed ; the horns are consequently thicker towards 
the root, in proportion to their other dimensions, than 
in older animals of the same kind ; nor are they near: 
so much bent inwards, as in the older animal. repre- 
sented page 193. 
The bone ef the head is exactly two feet long, and 
the distance between the top of the horns 35 inches; 
