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elongato, erecto, filiform! glabro, apice vagina erecta, rigidiiiscula 

 e basi lanceolata filiformi ornata ; lioribus fide collectoris albis, 

 breviter pedicellatis ; pedicellis filiformibus, flori brevioribiis ; 

 spathae valvis ffiqnalibus, ovato-lanceolatis acutis, membranaceo- 

 marginatis, perigonio brevioribus ; perigonio campannlato, seg- 

 mentis connatis, lanceolatis acntis, utrinque glabris, 1-5-2 cm. 

 longis, tube dimidium perigoni vix asquante ; staminibus segmentis 

 brevioribus, filamentis angastissime Imearibus, 0-7 cm. longis, 

 glabris ; antheris lineari-oblongis, apice glandula parvula ornatis, 

 0-4 cm. longis ; stylo filiformi glabro, brachiis antberas baud 

 excedentibus. 



In regione austro-orientali : In gramiuosis prope Port Alfred, 

 in ditione Bathurst, Coloniae Capensis, alt. c. 200 ped., Nov. 1895 ; 

 E. E. GaJpin, No. 3023. 



A species well distinguisbed from its allies by tbe elongate stem. 

 Tlie colour of tbe flowers, if any value may be attached to it, brings 

 it to the neighbourhood of R. chloroleuca Baker, a very different 

 stemless plant. 



MYCETOZOA OF ANTIGUA. 

 By Arthur Lister, F.R.S. 



In the number of this Journal for April, 1898, a record was 

 given of fifty -three species of Mycetozoa obtained by Mr. William 

 Gran from the islands of Antigua and Dominica. Examples of six 

 additional species collected in Antigua have since been received from 

 him, and the whole of his gatherings are now represented in the 

 British Museum Collection. We are fortunate in obtaining fifty-nine 

 species of these interesting organisms from a part of the world 

 where they have been so little investigated by former naturalists. 

 Mr. Cran has now left Antigua, and resides in Scotland ; and we 

 cannot but regret that his work in the West Indies has been 

 brought to a close, for it was an unusual privilege to have a man 

 with accurate discrimination living on the spot, who, besides 

 collecting the specimens, could observe their life-history. 



A striking feature in these gatherings is the entire absence of 

 any species of Trichia, which is a remarkably cosmopolitan genus; 

 but as the plasmodium almost always inhabits the substance of 

 rotten wood, it seems probable that the rapid destruction of exo- 

 genous timber by white ants, described by Mr. Cran,* may account 

 for his finding no species of Triclda in the island. 



The following is a list of the new specimens : — 



Physarum nucleatum Rex. On dead leaves. This species is not 

 uncommon in the United States of America, and has also been ob- 

 tained from Borneo and Java. It nearly resembles Physarum 

 compactum (Wing.) List, in the character of the capillitium ; but 



* Journ. Bot. 1898, 111. 



