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now growing in the Botanic Gardens. It is indeed remarkable that 

 so characteristic a bamboo, and one so well known to the natives, 

 should have remn-'ied quite unnoticed by the numerous collectors 

 and botanists who have been over the country during the past fifty 

 years. 



It is much to be hoped that flowering specimens may be 

 obtained, as it may not improbably form a new genus of Bambusem. 



Trichomanes Wallii Thw. ms. — Fronds simple, ^ to nearly 

 t in. long, mostly broad-ovate, with a cordate base and very obtuse 

 apex ; margin minutely and distantly denticulate ; venation sub- 

 radiate, the midrib being distinct, but lost before reaching the apex 

 of the frond ; no spurious venules ; involucres solitary, terminal, 

 not placed in a sinus, and not or very slightly exserted beyond the 

 margin of the frond ; border of mouth flat, spreading, entire. 



Hab. Stones and tree-trunks in the stream running through 

 the Labugama Elephant Kraal, March, 1870, collected with masses 

 of T. muscoides by Mr. W. Ferguson (C. P. 3989 in Herb. Perad.). 

 Khizome very slender ; fronds not crowded, subsessile. 



Very near T. Motley i V. de B., and perhaps not more than a 

 variety of it, but distinguishable by the sunken not exserted 

 involucres. The shape of the fronds varies ; the ones bearing fruit 

 are less cordate, or even tapering at the base. 



The name T. Wallii Thw. has been published in Mr. W. 

 Ferguson's pamphlet, 'Ceylon Ferns' (Colombo, 1880), preface, 

 and in Mr. G. Wall's ' Check List.' It is not mentioned in Col. 

 Beddome's 'Handbook' (1883). 



PLANTS OF EAST GLOUCESTER AND NOETH WILTS. 



By G. C. Druce, F.L.S. 



In July last I made a special search for Car ex tomentosa in the 

 water meadows of Marston Measey, but without success. The 

 following additions to the Flora of N. Wilts (Vice-county 7), as 

 given in ' Topographical Botany,' ed. ii., were met with. A few 

 are inserted from E. Gloucester (33), from near Kingham : — 



Eannncuhis Drouetii F. Sz. Near Lechlade (33). — B. fluitans 

 Lam. Thames near Marston Measey (7). 



Nijmijhcca alba L. Thames above Kelmscott (33). 



Pohjgala vuUjaris L. Canal-side, Marston (7); also near Kemps- 

 ford (33). 



Sa(jina apetala L. Marston Massey (7) ; Lechlade (33). 



Bosa mollis Sm. Marsh Hill (7); between Kelmscott and 

 Lechlade (33). 



Callitriche obtusamjula Le Gal. Marston (7) ; Lechlade (33). 



Cotyledon Umbilicus L. Fairford (33). 



Ginantlie Lachenalii Gmel. Canal-side near Lechlade (33). — 

 (E. Jiuviatilis Colem. River above Lechlade (33). 



Bosa urbica. Marston (7); Lechlade (33). 



