204 Bryophyten. — Pteridophyten. 



Kashyap, S. R., Liverworts of the Western Himalayas 

 and the Punjaub, with notes on known species and 

 descriptions ofnew species. II. (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. XXV. N° 2. p. 279—281. Sept. 1917.) 

 The author completes his acco'unt of the thalloid Hepaticae of 

 the Western Himalayas and the Punjaub with a list of 15 spe- 

 cies, among which are the following novelties: Fimbriaria reticulata, 

 Plagiochasma simlensis, Riella indica Steph., Aneara indica Steph., 

 Metsgeria himalayensis, Anthoceros chambensis. Other species have 

 already been described in the New Phytologist Vol. XIV. The 

 leafy Jungermanntales will be taken up later on. A Gepp. 



Kashyap, S. R., Note on Targionia hypophvlla. (New Phytologist. 

 XVI. pp. 228, 229. London 1917.) 



This is a note supplementary to the author's paper of 1914 in 

 which he proposed the varietal name integerrima for the «material 

 from Mussoree. The author has thoroughly re-examined that 

 material and finds that the two main differential characters, upon 

 which he relied, are not' sufficiently constant to maintain the va- 

 riety. The peculiar male shoots described for the Indian plant have 

 been shown by O'Keeffe to occur in British specimens; and the 

 absence of tooth-like interlocking processes from the involucral val- 

 ves is but a variable condition. A. Gepp. 



Ghose, S. L. f Occurrence ofthe Fern Peranema cyatheoides 

 at a comparatively low level. (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. XXIV. N° 3. p. 616. 1916.) 



Peranema cyatheoides is recorded by Beddome as occurring 

 in Nepal, Bhootan, Khasya and Anamallys at altitudes be- 

 tween 4,500 and 10,000 ft. The author calls attention to an example 

 collected recently by Prof. S. R. Kashyap near Mandal Chatti 

 in Garhwal in a valley between 3,000 and 3,500 ft. above sea 

 level. A. Gepp. 



Ghose, S. L., The Cone of Selaginella pallidissima Spring. 



(Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. XXV. N° 2. p. 284-289. 1 plate. 



Sept. 1917.) 

 The author describes the external morphology of the cone of 

 Selaginella pallidissima. It is a branched structure up to 5 cm long. 

 The sporophylls are very little differentiated from the ordinary 

 vegetative leaves and are inserted quite loosely on the axis, so that 

 the cone does not at all form a separate compact structure. The 

 sporophylls of the upper plane are quite sterile, and only those of 

 the lower plane have sporangia, one in the axil of each sporophyll. 

 Megasporangia and microsporangia are distributed indiscriminately 

 on the cone. Sometimes megaspores are unequal in size. Microspo- 

 rangia are saddle-shaped. 



The cone can be regarded as a very primitive one on account 

 of its big size, branched nature, loose insertion of sporophylls, 

 little differentiation of the latter from ordinary foliage leaves, and 

 indiscriminate distribution of megasporangia and microsporangia on 

 the axis. The absence of any dorsal Aap or ridge on the compara- 



