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CURRENT LITERATURE. 

 Critical Notes, Figures, new Indian Species, etc. 



Trichodesma indicum Br. and T. amplexicaule DC. In a note in 

 Bee. Bot, Survey India VI (1919) p. 347, L. J. SEDGWICK points out that these 

 two species, often confused, are really quite distinct, there being differences in 

 hibit, in the leaves, in the calyx, corolla, stamens and fruit. Confusion has 

 been due to Roth describing as T. amplexicaule what is really a form of 

 T. indicum Br. The chief differences are illustrated in a plate, and the paper 

 is a good example of what can be done in clearing up mixed species, by 

 careful observation, even without recourse to type sheets. 



Fumaria indica H. W. Pugsley Sp. Nov., Proc. Linn. Soc. XLIV (1918) 

 No. 298, p. 313, hitherto included in F. parviflora sub-sp. Vaitlantii in 

 F. B. I. 128 (1872). 



Jnipatiens Kleiniformis L. S. Sedgwick Sp. Nov. Records of Bot. Sur. 

 India, VI (1919) p. 351. Very close to I. Kleinii Wt. and Arn.,but distinguished 

 by the lives of pubescence on the -pedicels, the sessile upper leaves with 

 cordate base, and the absence of glands. Dist. Western Ghats at 1,600 ft. 

 Castle Rock. Fir. August. 



Vernonia Fysoni Calder, Sp. Nov. Bee. Bot, Sur. India. VI (1919) p. 343 

 (with plate). Allied to V. Wightiana Arn. and V. comoriensis W. W. Smith, 

 but distinguished by the glabrous obtuse involucral-bracts, glandular 10-rib- 

 bed achenes, and the absence of outer series of pappus hairs. A tall subscan- 

 dent undershrub with dark upper and very white tomentose under surface to 

 the leaves. Dist. In light sholas at Kodaikanal, Pulney Hills 7,000 ft. 



Habenaria ( § Ate) multicaudata. L. J. Sedgwick. Sp. Nov. Bee. Bot. 

 Sur. India VI (1919) p. 352. 4 A distinct and curious species strongly 

 characterised by the fantastic filiform appendages and enormous anther 

 cells, projecting beyond the flower when it is held in profile.' Dist. North 

 Kanara, near Karwar at 1,500 ft. Fir. Sept. 



Asparagus Fysoni MacBride, Norn. Nov. Conlr. Gray Herb. Harvard 

 ZJniu. (191b) p. 17, for the Nilgiri and Palni plant hitherto known as 

 A. subulatus Steud. et Baker (1875), which specific name had fceen given pre- 

 viously to a S. African plant by Thunberg, Prod. PI. Cap. 66 (1794). 



Primula chasmophila Balf. (from Bhutan) is figured in Curt. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 8791 (1919). 



Primula tibetica Watt. (Sikkim and Bhutan) is figured in Curt. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 8796. 



Ipomoea dasyspermajflcg, (Simla, Rohilcund and Deccan) is figured in 

 Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 8788, 



P. F. F. 



The Genus Oxalis in India. 



C. C. Calder. The Species of Oxalis now wild in India. Bee. Bot. 

 Stir. Intl. VI. (1919) pp. 326—341 with 7 pi. 



Of the nine species now well established four are tropical American, two 



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