dry. | Sheath split to the base on one side, margin waved or lobed, fleshy ; 
Podostemon.] cxx. popostemonaces. (J. D. Hooker.) 67 
ellipsoid not ribbed. Hydrobryum lichenoides, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. xlii. 2. 103. 
TENASSERIM; on branches of shrubs near waterfalls at Tavoy and Moulmein, 
arish. . 
Plant 1-2 in. broad, adhering tò bark, irregularly or subradiately spreading. 
Leaves i, in. long, upper largest. Spathe open, rather shorter than the pedicel: 
Stamens unknown.—I have seen no specimen of Kurz's Hydrobryum lichenoides, of 
which the description is very meagre; as, however, he states it to have been received 
from Parish and collected in Burma, there is little room to doubt its identity. Weddel 
describes the plant as not ribbed, Kurz as broadly 8-ribbed. 
ll. P. Wallichii, Br. in Wall. Cat. 5225; planta minute flat veined 
lobulate frond, buds on the edges of the lobes 1-fld. continuous with the 
veins, of 5-7 scale-like subdistichous fleshy at length deciduous leaves, 
spathe tubular, capsule 8-ribbed. Grif. in As. Research. xix. 108, t. 17, 
and Notul. 378, and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 541, f. 1, 542, 543; Gardn. in Cale. 
Journ. Nat. Hist.183; Royle Tll.i.331. Dicrzea Wallichii, Tul. in' Ann. Sc. 
Nat. Ser. 3, xi. 101, and Monogr. Podost. 118; Wight Ic. t. 1916, f. 1; 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 70. Lacis Wallichii, Steud. Nomencl. Poly- 
. pleurum orientale, Tayl. mss. Blandovia striata, Lehm. mss. 
i ABTA Mrs., Wallich; at the falis near Churra, Griffith. Ava; at Cheppedong, 
allich. . 
Plant ascending, about 1 in. long, veins radiating. Buds usually from between the 
lobes, rarely superficial. Leaves irregularly disposed, more or less connate. Pedicel 
i-i. Spathe dilated at the mouth, invaginate about the middle. Filament sub- 
terete; anthers broadly ovate; staminodes 2 or with a third arising from the fork of 
the filament. Ovary ovoid ; stigmas thick, subulate, unequal, divaricate. Capsule 
narrowed into the pedicel; valves persistent, incurved. 
12. P. pterophyllus, Benth. in Gen. Pl. iii. 112; plant a very small 
flat-veined lobed frond, lobes entire or forked, buds arising from the veins 
at about the middle of the frond of 4-6 distichous leaves with winged keels, 
Capsule ellipsoid 8-12-ribbed. Dicrwa pterophylla, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 
xvn. 7]. - 
Knuasra Mms.; in rivulets, J. D. H. . 
Plant variable in form, appressed ; veins radiating from the centre ; lobes or Seg- 
ments short or sometimes 1} in. long. Upper leaves the longest, about " in. long, 
keel dilated into an oblong wing. Pedicels 4-} in. Stigmas (imperfect) ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, Capsule about y; in. , 
13. P. minor . dn Gen. Pl. iii. 112; plant a minute stellately 
lobed flat veinless ord "bes narrow simple or subdichotomously branched, 
puds on the margins and upper surface of the fronds leafless, spathe enclosed 
m a very obliquely funnel-shaped sheath, capsule ellipsoid 10-ribbed. Dicrwa 
minor, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 71. 
Kuasra Mrs.; Griffith. 
lant fragmentary, fragments 14 in, long and less, very narrow, olive brown tba 
Seated in the sheath, tubular, mouth 2-lobed, longer tban the pedicel. Filament 
aiualling the capsule; anthers ovate ; staminodes very slender, half as long as the 
‘ment. Capsule sessile, subacute, dorsal nerve acute; stigmas linear, acute. 
Sect. III. Sela oid Stems of two forms, flowering densely 
fascicled elongate, od with imbricating tetrastichous thic scales ; 
eaves of the flowerless stem with very long filiform tips. ja 
