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Habitat. — in shallow water iu a water-channel of the Shalainar garden. 

 Lahore ; occasionally on damp mud." The plants were found in the months 

 of February and March of 191:i and 1914. This is the first species of 

 Kiella to be described from India. 



Aneura Indica st. n. s. Thallus simple or irregularly pinnately branched, 

 or formuig rosettes, loosely attached to humus, or firmly fixed to the soil ; 

 lobes thin or thick, margins undulate, slightly raised, or closely attached 

 ti) the substratum. Lobes up to o cm. long and up to o mm. broad. Xo 

 distinct midrib, thallus gradually thinning towards the margins. Greatest 

 thickness in the middle from S to 13 cells. Dorsal epidermis, smooth or papil- 

 lose or epidermal cells dome-shaped. Dicecious. Male plants smaller, irregu- 

 larly branched, branches rather long and narrow, thick fleshy, margins 

 turned upwards. Antheridia on small branches with a circular outline, 

 restricted to the central part of the dorsal surface. 



Archegonia with filamentous or small flat green scales. 

 Habitat. — Various parts of the Himalayas and the plains. 

 Common on the hills, rare iu plains. Extremely variable. In moist shady 

 places the plants remain thin and light green only loosely attached to the 

 substratum, and epidermal cells of the dorsal surface are plain ; in exposed 

 warm places of the plains the plants are thick deep green firmly attached to 

 the soil, and the cells of the dorsal epidermis are projecting into distinct 

 papilUe. The dorsal epidermal cells of the male plants are perhaps always 

 papillate. Occasionally archegonia occur on the dorsal side of elongated 

 shoots, mixed with small multicellular papillate outgrowths. Normally in 

 the genus Aneura the female shoots remain very small. 



Aneura Lerieri Schtfr. Plants brownish, densely overlaping in thick pat- 

 ches, very much branched in an irregularly pinnate manner, up to 10 mm. 

 long. Lobes liner or linear oblong, ultimate branches quadrate or obovate ; 

 •<.>blong or linear in very moist places. No distinct midrib. Main shoot 

 «np to eight cells thick, biconvex lenticular in transverse section : cells all 

 alike or epidermal cells rather small. 



Habitat.— C\r<im\>ii-VAm?iv\ road, 0,000 ft. on a moist cliff. Pangie in 

 running water. The Pangie specimens were much longer up to L^o mm. but 

 the older parts were dead. They were also thinner and the ultimate lobes 

 were oblong or linear oblong. 



Metzfferia 2)ube.^cens (Schrank) IJaddi. Mussoorie about 5,000 ft. Chamba- 

 Pangie mad. about 10,000 ft. 



The chief interest of this species lies in its great variation. The plant 

 can be readily recognised owing to the presence of setjie on both surfaces 

 everywhere. 'The European specimens, however, are described as dis- 

 tinctly pinnate vvith 8 to 11 cells forming the epidermis of the midrib. 

 The Pangie specimens were more or less pinnate but the number of epider- 

 mal cell's on the midrib was 6 or 7. The Mussoorie specimens were dis- 

 tinctly dichotomous and the number of epidermal cells on the midrib was 

 only 4. In other respect the plants resemble the European forms. 



Metxfjeria Himalayanfi^ n. s. Plants deep green, dichotomous upto lo mm. 

 r more long and upto 1 mm. broad. Lobes upto 4 mm. long. Midrib 

 biconvex, lamina plane or undulate, occasionally interrupted. Long hairs 

 present on the undersurface of the midrib and the margins, the rest naked. 

 Midrib 4-o cells thick and 3 cells broad through the centre. Epidermal 

 cells f. Lamina in old parts upto 14 cells on each side ; cells 32 n. Xi'4 n. 

 Cah/cularia crispula, Mitt. Dalhousie-Chamba road ; Oarhwal, near Gauri 

 Kund. 



J'ellia calyeiiui (Tayl). Nees. Common in tho Himalayas ; Simla, Mus- 

 soorie, Mnrree, Pangie, Garhwal. 



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