EXOTIC LICHENS FROM EASTERN ASIA. 49 
labels of localities attached to them. Most of the latter had 
become more or less putrid from dampness; and even of the 
former, many were destitute of spores from the same cause. The 
examination of both was consequently very tedious, and their 
determination (even where this was possible) in some cases a 
rather difficult task. 
From what follows, it will be seen that of those which admitted 
of determination, some are interesting as illustrative of Lichen- 
distribution, and others as being new species or varieties pre- 
viously undetected. "These latter form a very fair proportion 
(nearly one fourth) of the whole number determinable. 
I. British Burmah. 
Family LicHEn cet. 
Tribe PARMELIEI. 
1. PanwELIA sULPHURATA, Nyl. & Flot. On the wooden supports 
of the Buddhist Monastery at Moulmein. Fertile. 
2. *PARMELIA TABACINA," Mont. Syll. p. 327. On walls of the 
old Buddhist Monastery at the Pagoda, Moulmein. Sterile. 
According to Nylander, this constitutes nothing typical, but 
only some common species (in the present case probably P. latis- 
sima), destroyed by urine or some ammoniacal liquid (J. M. C.). ' 
Tribe PuxscirEr. 
3. Puyscra PICTA (Sw.). On Cocoa-Palms. Dagon Pagoda at 
Rangoon. Fertile. 
Tribe LEcrpEEr. 
4. LECIDEA SUBALBOATRA, Nyl., sp. n. Thallus albidus vel 
albido-cinerascens tenuis granulato-inzqualis subdetermina- 
tus; apothecia nigra opaca superficialia plana marginata (latit. 
"05—08 millim.); spore 8næ, fusce, seriebus 4-6, uni- vel 
bi-loculares, longit. 0:015-0:022 millim., crassit. 0007-0009 
millim. ; paraphyses gracilescentes ; epithecium et hypothecium 
fusca. lodo gelatina hymenialis intensive cerulescens.—A ffinis 
L. alboatre et forsan non specie differens. 
On posts. Near the Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon. 
Tribe GRAPHIDIEI. 
5. GnaPHIS HETEROCARPA, Fée. On Palm-trees. Dagon Pagoda. 
Tribe PYRENOCARPEI. 
6. VERRUCARIA GLABRATA, Ach. On bark of trees. Dagon Pagoda, 
