cr. roDosTEMONACE.i:. 521 



Y^n. 2. lonhanica, Willis, 1. c. p. 210. Thallus 6-10 in. in diam, 

 with flabelliform lobes and crowded growing points. Leaves |-| in. 

 long. Cupules short or long, often leafy when young. Flowers often 

 nodding in bud. Fruiting pedicels very variable, usually ^ iu. long or 

 longer. Fruit xV~T\r ^^^- long, obovoid, light-brown. 



KoNKAN : Dalzell\ ; streams in the Island of Salsette, Lav:. ! Deccan : Ig.itpuri on 

 the Thai Ghat (Q. I. P. R.)- Willh ; Kasara on the Thai Ghat, Williii ; Khandala, 

 Willis, Wood row ex Willis; Sakarpathar hill near Lanoli, Woodrim ex Willis; Khadshi 

 river near Borkas, west of Poona, Bhide ex Willis ; Warra Ghat bet\^■een Wai and 

 Wathiir Railway-station, Raojil — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



2. GRIFFITHELLA, Warming. 



Thallus algiform, very polymorphous, ^V"! ^^^- ^^ diam. Leaves 

 distichous. Flowers naked, zygomorphic, emerging from an erect or 

 ascending, tubular or funnel-shaped spathe which is irregularly ruptured 

 at the tip. Stamens 2, monadelphous ; staminodes 2. Ovary very 

 oblique ; stigmas 2, simple, subulate or more or less toothed or lobed, 

 with small papillae. Capsule quite smooth, neai-ly spherical, unequally 

 lobed, splitting obliquely into a larger persistent and smaller deciduous 

 lobe. — DiSTBiB. India (W. Peninsula) ; species 1. 



1. Griffithella Hookerianaj Warminr/, Fam. Podost. Afhaudl. 6 

 (1901) p. 13. A minute moss-Hke plant 1-1| in. high. Thallus most 

 variable in ultimate form, sometimes cup-like or rotate, stalked, or com- 

 pletely attached, or creeping, ribbon-like. Leaves reaching ^ in. long. 

 Floral buds usually closely crowded ; bracts usually 4-6, more or less 

 cucuUate. Spathe tubular or funnel-shaped, splitting into 2-raany teeth 

 at the tip. Stamens equalling or exceeding the ovary and stigmas. 

 Stigmas subulate, cuneate, and then more or less toothed or fimbriate, 

 the upper one then often divided into 2 to the base. Fruiting pedicels 

 g-f in. long. Capsules smooth, globose, variable in size. AVillis, 

 Podost. in Ann. Koy. Gard. Perad. p. 233. Mniopsis lloolceriana, 

 Tul. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, v. 11 (1849) p. 105 ; Wight, Icon. 1. 1918, 

 fig. 4 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 245. Podostemon ffool-erianus, Wedd. in DC. 

 Prodr. V. 17 (1873) p. 74; Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 65; Woodr. iu 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 366.— Flowers : Oct.-Dec. Veen. 

 KaruJc-phid. 



KoNKAN : Law I ; common in running streams, flowering as soon as its head is 

 above water, Balzell ^ Gibson ; Atgaon (Tanna districts) on the Khadshi river, Bhide 

 ex Willis. Deccan: Mawal (Poona districts), Woodrow. Kanaka: Kala naddi 

 (N. Kanara), Talbot, 1129!, if ;Y<:A/e !— Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



3. HYDROBRYUM, Eudl. 



Thallus closely attached to rock by hairs at all points, crustaceous or 

 ribbon-like, exogenously lobed or branched ; secondary shoots usually 

 prostrate when floriferous, 1-flowered, with small scaly bracts. Leaves 

 simple, subulate. Flowers zygomorphic, pedicellate or sessile, emerging 

 from a more or less prostrate, boat-shaped spatlie which splits along 

 the upper side. Stamens 2 or 1, equalling or exceeding the ovary 

 and stamens. Ovary subglobose, 2-celled ; stigmas 2, rather large, 

 subulate, lobed or dentate, sometimes obcuneate, entire or lacerate. 



