52 DR. HOOKER'S MISSION TO INDIA. 
II. PHEROSPHÆRA, Archer. Gen. nov. 
Flores dioici. Masc. Amenta oblongo-cylindracea, vix ramulis suis 
latiora. Syuame antheriferze rotundo-ovate, minute ciliato-dentate, 
unguiculate. Antherarum thece 2, globose, squamis suis minores, 
membranacez, divaricate. Pollen . . . . Fam. Amenta 
ovata, suberecta, ramulis suis dimidio latiora. Sguama oblongo- 
ovate, concave, subnaviculares, ad apicem incurvee, peltate, imbri- 
cate. Ovula globosa, solitaria, juxta apicem squamarum posita, 
super costam sedentia.  S/robilus minusculus, decurvus, e squamis 
(circiter 12) foliis submajoribus leeviter patentibus formatus. Semina 
minima, ovato-globosa, omnino nuda, solitaria; festa chartaceo- 
spongiosa, levis, substriata. — Frutieulus prostratus, humifusus. 
Rami ramulosissimi. ^ Ramuli plurimi, tetragoni, sub 1 lin. lati, 
patentes, subdistichi. Folia rhombeo-ovata, dorso obtusangulosa, 
cruciatim opposita, arcte imbricata, ramo appressa. Amenta ad apices 
ramulorum. plurima. 
P. Hookeriana (nobis). 
Microcachrys tetragona. Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. (quoad amenta fem. 
solummodo.) 
Oss. In Dr. J. D. Hooker's description of the genus Microcachrys, 
in * Lond. Journ. Bot., vol. iv., he has appropriated to it the female 
amenta of this hitherto undefined genus, for which I now propose 
the name of Pherosphera (derived from dépe, I bear, opaipa, 4 
globe), on account of its globose seeds. 
Extracts from the private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hookzn, written during 
a Botanical Mission to INDIA. 
DARJEELING TO ToxGLo. 
(Continued from p. 23.) 
At daylight the following morning the temperature was 67°, the sky 
partially clear, with heavy clouds on the mountains, and especially on the 
Darjeeling spur, where the village seemed as if lifted up into the air. 
Descended a very steep gully, choked with Calami and Fici, and 
ascended again to the base of Tonglo by a steep slope, cultivated here and 
there with Maize, Rice, and Millet, and occasionally Amaranthus, Fennel, 
Cumin, Capsicum, Yam, Brindjal (Egg-Solanum), Cannabis, and Buck- 
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