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June, 1885. Dr. Ascherson has verified my determination of the 

 species, which has also been met with on the Borneo and Arracan 

 coasts, and is probably to be found elsewhere on the sea-shores of 

 the Eastern Tropics. Mr. Nevill has himself published some 

 remarks on this and on the forms of H. ovalis in Ceylon in his 

 periodical, the * Taprobanian,' ii. 67, for 1887. It is very desirable 

 to obtain flowers and fruit of this little plant ; the structure of its 

 leaves is so difierent from that of H. ovalis that it is not improbable 

 it may belong to a different genus. It is omitted from its place in Fl. 

 Brit. India, v. 664, though I sent specimens to Kew on its discovery. 



Liparis Trimenii Eidl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 350 (1888). 

 This was collected at Horagala, Dolosbagie, in Sept. 1885, and is 

 fully described in Mr. Eidley's Monograph in the Linnean Society's 

 Journal, as above quoted. 



CHniim latifolium L. I refer to this species a fine Crinum I 

 found between Anuradhapura and Mihintale in Aug. 1885. It 

 agrees well with Wight, Ic. t. 2019-20, though not with Bot. Eeg. 

 t. 1297, which can scarcely be the same si^ecies. The large flowers 

 were 4 to 8, usually 5, in an umbel, and the perianth-segments 

 considerably broader than in the forms of C. zeylanicnm L. met with 

 wild in Ceylon. I have another species of Crinum (Codonocrinum) 

 with few small flowers, sent me by Mr. Nevill, and collected on the 

 sandy coast at Puttalam, but my material is insufiicient to determine 

 its name with any certainty. 



Urginea congesta Wight, var. eupicola Trim. MS. Flowers 

 fewer and more laxly arranged, and perianth-leaves broader and 

 more obtuse than in the Indian plant. — Abundant in flower and 

 young fruit in the chinks of arid flat rocks at Dambulla, on the 

 lower part of the ascent to the temples, July, 1887. I am unable 

 to distinguish this as a species from Wight's plant (Ic. t. 2064, fig. 

 sinistra), but Mr. Baker, to whom I submitted specimens, was 

 inclined to consider it as distinct, and nearer to U.fugax Steinh., a 

 Mediterranean species. My material is bad ; the intense heat and 

 di'ought had withered-off the leaves, which seem to be two only, 

 narrow, folded, and channelled, and to appear along with the 

 flower-scapes. The perianth is white, with the midrib purplish 

 brown. 



Typhonium cuspidatum Dene. Discovered by the late W. Ferguson 

 in July, 1886, by the side of the lake at Colombo, no doubt pre- 

 viously passed over as the common T. divaricatwu, from which it is 

 easily known by the possession of staminodes, thus coming under 

 Schott's genus Heterostalis. It has been found in India, Malacca, 

 Java, and Timor, and is figured in Wight, Ic. t. 791. It is better 

 known under the name T. jiagelliforme Bl. [Arum Lodd.). 



Naias major All. (xY. muricata Del.). On hard mud in 2 ft. of 

 water in a lagoon near Kalmunai, May 1885, sent by Mr. H. Nevill. 

 This aquatic has a very wide range over the Northern Hemisphere, 

 chiefly in the extra-tropical parts, but it is also found in Queensland. 

 I have not met with any record of its occurrence in India, though 

 it doubtless grows there. It is very variable as to the amount of 

 armature of the stem and leaves ; the Ceylon plant has the spines 



