BY J. H. MAIDEN. 383 



PIPERACE.^. 



Pepkromia affinis Domin, in Qu«HMislaii(l A^ric. J<»urn. xxi^ ., 

 222, 1910. 

 Prof. Domin told nic vt>rl)ally tliat tlie plant atlrilnited to P. 

 refiexa A. Dietr., from r.orcl Howe Island {see Hemsley, Ann. 

 Bot., X., 249) is his /^ affinis. 



PALMK.E 

 Hedyscepe Canterburyana F.\.M. 

 This Palm fruited for the first time in the Botanic Gardens, 

 Sydney, in August, 1913. See a note of its flowering, together 

 with a photograph, in these Proceedings, xxiv., 1899, p. 382. 

 HowEA Belmokeana Becc. (These Proceedings, xxiii., 1 898,p.l37. 

 See a paper ''Dichogamie Proterandre chez le Kentia (Howea) 

 Belmoreana", par J. Daveau (Journal de Botanique, IG Janvier, 

 1896). 



PANDANACE.5-:. 



Pandanus Fursteri F.v.M. and C. Moore. (These Proceedings, 



xxiii., 1898, p.UO.) 



Warburg, in his monograph,* synonymised P. Moorei F.v.M., 



with P. Porsteri, as I had surmised. So that there is only one 



species on the island. He figures a drupe (Fig.l3,E). 



GRAMINE.^. 

 Paspalum distichum L. 

 In These Proceedings, xxiii., 1898, p. 143, I pointed out that, 

 in this grass, we had three and even four spikes, and suggested 

 the name anomalum for this form. Mr. W, B. Hemsley (then 

 of Kew) Avrites : "The production of three spikes is not a rare 

 occurrence, and hardly justifies the distinction of this form as a 

 variety." 



FILICES. 

 The Rev. W. A\^. Watts has published a paperf on "The Ferns 

 of Lord Howe Island," and I propose to leave the critical revision 

 of the species to him. 



* " Das Pflauzenreich " (Pandanaceai). 

 t These Proceedings, xxxvii., 1912, 395. 



