M. Sundevall on the Birds of Calcutta, 87 



19. R. rudis, Weihe. 



e. denticulatus ; foliolo terminali quadrangulari-obovato cuspidate 



basi cordato late inepteque dentato : dentibus denticulatis. 



Stem angular, striated ; hairs very few j setae and aciculi not 

 many, short. Terminal leaflet with a somewhat square outline 

 widening slightly upwards and then narrowing rapidly to a cus- 

 pidate termination, cordate below. Leaflets all stalked; mar- 

 gin with broad but very shallow and scarcely distinguishable 

 teeth, fringed with small acute prominent denticulations ; dark 

 gi'een and pilose above, pale yellowish green beneath. Panicle 

 exactly like that of the typical R. rudis. 



Loxley hear Sheffield, Rev. W. W. Newhould. 



Obs. This is a very curious variety, in which the coarse serra- 

 tures of R. rudis are reduced in length but not in width, and are 

 thus converted into very broad and very shallow teeth ; the whole 

 margin is also fringed with minute points or denticulations. It 

 is very near in general character to R, rudis ^, Leightonii, but 

 differs in the above respects. 

 22. 22. /««co-a/er, Weihe. 

 5. subglaher; caulis petiolorumque aculeis subsequalibus setisque 



paucis, aciculis brevibus pilisque paucissimis, foliis apiculato-den- 



tatis supra glabris subtus tomentosis, foliolo terminali cordato cus- 



pidato, paniculse diffusae tomentosse pilis subnullis setis aciculisque 



brevibus aculeis elongatis. 



Distinguished from all the other forms of R. fusco-ater by its 

 almost total want of hairs on the panicle, and the nearly glabrous 

 and more uniformly prickly stems. Its panicle is much divided 

 and spreads in an irregular manner. It is the plant mentioned 

 in the Synopsis as received from Mr. Coleman. Mr. Adamson^s 

 plant noticed in the same place is more nearly allied to the ty- 

 pical R. fusco-ater. 



Mangrove Lane near Hertford, Rev. TV. H. Coleman. On the 

 canal bank between Claverton and the Dundas aqueduct near 

 Bath. 



X. — The Birds of Calcutta, collected and described by 

 Carl J. Sundevall*. 



[Continued from vol. xviii. p. 461.] 

 69. Callus alector var. domestica. Tame fowls are kept in 

 great numbers by the Musselmans and Portuguesef. The Hin* 



• Translated from the * Pliysiographiska Sallskapets Tidskrift' by H. K. 

 Strickland, M.A. 



t The Portuguese who migrated thither in the time of Albuquerque 

 settled in the country, and their descendants, who are now numerous in and 

 around Calcutta, have become as black as negroes. The Hindoos in the 

 lowlands have nearly the same colour. 



