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Species excludenda. 



Ammannia dentelloides, Kurz, in Joiirn. As. Soc. Beng. XXXIX, ii (1870) 

 76 ; Clarke in Hook, f . Fl Brit. Ind. ii (1879) 568. 



This plant, of which we have seen Kurz's specimen, does not belong to 

 the Lythracecc. It is Microcarpaea muscosa. It. Br. (^Scrophidariacecc .) 



Kurz gives the following localities: "Frequent in Northern Bengal, as in 

 Purneah, Kissengunge, Titalaya up to the Sikkim Terai, in dried up ponds 

 and ricefields, shortly after the rains ; also in Behar, and Arracan in Kolo- 

 dyne Valley, Akyab, etc." — To this must be added the localities mentioned 

 by Clarke under M. muscosa. I.e. The Herbarium of the Bombay Nat. His. 

 8oc. contains a specimen collected by Talbot at Yellapore (N. Kanara) in 

 Aug. 1883, and named Ammania pentandra, Ifoxb. Microcarpaea tnuscosa, Ii. 

 Mr., therefore, is a new member of the Flora of the Bombay Presidency. 



( To he continved. ) 



