PROCEEDINGS 



OP THK 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For OcTOBEf^ and November, 1900. 



A General Meeting of the Society for the reading of papers was 

 held at Simla on the 5th October, 1900, at 5 p.m. 



H. H. RiSLEY, Esq., I.C.S., C.I.E., Vice-President, in the chair. 



H.E. Baeon Curzon of Kedleston, Patron of the Society was 

 present. 



Mr. H. H. Risley exhibited and explained : — 



(a) a fire-drill used by the Todas for kindling the fire in the 

 sacred cow-house, 



(b) a photograph of the wooden elephant used by the Kondhs of 

 Ganjam and the Orissa hills for the purpose of human sacrifice, 



(c) a tali, or marriage symbol of the Chenchu tribe in Southern 

 India, and 



(d) a coin of the Nameless King, one of the Scythian rulers not yet 

 identified. 



The following papers were read : — 



(1). Description of a new Himalayan genus of Orohanchacese. — By 

 J. S. Gamble, M.A., E.R.S., and Major D. Prain, I.M.S., LL.D. 



( Abstract.) 



This new genus Gleadovia Gamble and Prain, is dedicated to 

 Mr. E. Gleadow who first actually found it. It has the faciea of 



