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oi Acjathis Motleyi; and this was strikingly shown when in 1868 

 Parlatore (in DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 508) described fertile material, 

 which he did not recognise as of the same plant — collected l)y 

 Beccari (No. 2649) between 1865 and 1868 in Sarawak, North- 

 west Borneo — as Podocaiyus Bcccarii. 



The following is a brief description of the plant, to which I 

 have added its synonymy : — Current year's twigs short, sub- 

 verticillate, distinctly pulvinate and narrowly ridged, terminated 

 by narrow sharply acuminate buds, enclosed by 2-4 oval 

 acuminately cuspidate denticulate-lacerate scales. Leaves oppo- 

 site, ascending and hence overlapping, oval, acute, or shortly and 

 sharply cuspidate, attenuate or rarely rounded basally, with a 

 very short broad not twisted petiolar base ; 1-1| in. long, ^-f in. 

 broad, coriaceous and rigid, doubtless dark lustrous green in the 

 living state, indistinctly longitudinally striate when dried ; margin 

 not recurved. Male strobiles unknown. Females flowers disposed 

 singly in the axils of the leaves, borne on a short, stout, j^ in. 

 long peduncle. Receptacles thickly fleshy, cylindric, damson- 

 coloured. Seed globose, smooth and brownish with a slight 

 glaucescent sheen, f in. in diameter. 

 PoDOCABPUS Motleyi, comb. nov. 



Dammara Motleyi Parlatore, Index Sem. Hort. Bot. Florent. 

 26 (1862) ; in Seemann, Journal of Botany, i. 36 (1863) ; 

 and in De Candolle, Prod. xvi. ii. 377 (1868). 



Agathis Motleyi Warburg, Monsunia, i. 185 (1900). 



Podocaiyus Beccarii Parlatore, ojj, cit. 508 ; Pilger, Taxacete, 

 59 (1903). 



Podocarpus sp., Seward & Ford, in Phil. Trans, cxcviii. 317 

 (1906), with figure of leaf. 



Nageia Beccarii Gordon, Pinetum, 186 (1875). 



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JOSEPH ANTHONY MARTINDALE. 

 (1837-1914.) 



Joseph Anthony Martindale, who passed away in his 77th 

 year on April 3rd, was one of our ablest British Lichenologists, 

 and was recognised as such on the Continent as well as in this 

 country. He was born on July 19th, 1837, at Stanhope, in the 

 Weardale Valley, Durham. His father moved soon afterwards to 

 Durham, and became first mathematical master at Bede College, 

 remaining there, however, only a short time, for when young 

 Martindale was only eleven years old his father was conducting 

 a private school at Sunderland, and lecturing and writing on 

 agriculture and chemistry. Joseph, who was the eldest of seven 

 children, at that age obtained a medal for chemistry, amongst 

 youths of eighteen and nineteen, under the examination of a well- 

 known professor, but his father, with a stern rectitude, forbade 

 him to accept the medal, an act of probity which Martindale 

 himself in later years used to refer to as rather hard upon him. 

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