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and Namoli, and at Suket, reaching 4,000 ft. at the latter place ; in 
Bashahr (Lace no. 1100). United Provinces :-”-Almora district, 
formerly; Agra; Cavvnpur ; Dehra Dun ; Gorakhpur (ll. St. G. Burke). 
Bengal: — On the Kumta river near Jainagar in tlie district of Dar- 
bhanga; Muzafferpur; Sirseah near Muzafferpur ; Sainaslijmr ; Dalsin^ 
Sarai ; Bah^rdurganj, Maliugaon and Garhandanga in the north of the 
Purpeah district ; Purneah ; Kishenganj, plentiful ; Parhati))ur ; Barb ; 
common between Barakar and Gaya in 1850 (Kurz) ; east of Pitoria in 
the district of Ranchi (Wood) ; Sagardlghi and Barala in the distiict of 
Murshedabad ; north of Ban pur in the Nadia district ; near Calcutta at 
Konnagar, Chinsurah, Hughli and Tollyganj ; in Orissa near Cuttack and 
at Jajpur. Eastern' Bengal : — Rampur-Boalia ; Rangpur; Patgram in 
the district of Ran gpur ; Serajganj ; Jagannathganj ; Gauripur in tho 
district of Mymensingh; Dacca; Chittagong, Assam: — Goalpara ; 
Gauhati ; Shillong at 4,800 ft. ; Russi, between Shillong and Jowai ; 
Tezpur ; Bishnath ; Jamuna Mukh in the Nowgong district (Gill) >* 
Melang in the district of Sibs%ar (Watt). Central Provinces : — Musra 
in the State of Khairagarh ; at Bhandara road station, near Khat and 
Tumsar road station in the district of Bhandara. Bajputana Sanganir 
near Jaipur; perhaps also at Alwar. ^Kizam’s tloniillioilS : — Degaon 
near Bhaisa. Madras : — Formerly very general (see p. 302) : near 
Madras ; formerly, if not still, at Coimbatore; in the Circars the only 
Cactus about Parlakimedi ; and at Gopalpur (Prainj , Hospet and 
Penuchonda (Cox). Burma : — Akyab ; sparingly ; in Pegu in the 
time of .Kurz ; in the dry central region at Sidoktaya in the district of 
Minbu (Aubert and Gage), Sale, Yamethin, Kyaukse, Bilin, Singaing, 
Samon railway station, Mandalay ; Sagaing to Shwebo along the 
railway, Pakan“nge in the Pakokku district; Wabo, Tandow and 
Myinmu in the Sagaing district ; at Bhamo (G. W. Dawson) ; 
in the Shan hills at Hsipaw ; and Fort Stedman (Abdul Huq.) 
Opuutia nigricans : — Has only been seen on the railway embanV- 
ment a few miles from Bankipur towards Gaya. However it is so very 
like the next that it may have been overlooked elsewhere. 
Opuutia elatior : — Is exceedingly common in India. Punjab : — Ex- 
ceedingly common about Delhi,; beyond Delhi about the villages of 
Bamla, Kalanaur and Chirana between Hissar and Panlpat ; Kangra, 
United Provinces -Very general, but replaced by Opuntia DiHenii nevLY 
Agra and to the south-east. Bengal : — Exceedingly common in the Arrah 
and Patna districts ; associated "with Opunlia jnonacantlia at Purneah, 
Calcutta; verv plentiful in Orissa. Central Provinces : — At N%pui‘ 
