205 
1-1-5 cm. lata, apice tenuiter acutata, plana, supra saturate viridia, 
costa basi calloso-incrassata supra tenui percursa, tenuiter striata, 
laevis nisi secundum margines asperula, infra violaceo-purpurea, 
asperula, nervis secundariis utrinque 3 prominulis, venis trans- 
versis nullis. Inflorescentia terminalis, 1*5 cm. longa, angusta, 
subsecunda, folio summo superata spicularum paribus 4-5; ramuli 
adpressi, ad 3 mm. longi, uti rhachis semicylindrica, sublaeves vel 
superne asperuli. Spiculae masculae 5 mm. longae, inferiorum 
gluma inferior 1-1*5 mm. longa, lanceolata vel ovata, magis 
minusve acuta, superior minor ; antherae vix 1 mm. longa ; 
pistillum rudimentarium antheras paulo superans. Spiculae 
femineae 6 mm. longae ; valva 5 mm. longa, laevissima. 
Native country unknown. Raised at Kew from seeds com- 
municated by Messrs. Sander & Son. 
The blades of vertical stems are more or less at right angles to 
the medium plane, of inclined stems more or less inclined, and if 
more than two or three, distinctly distichous. The uppermost 
blade is obliquely erect and more or less in the continuation of 
the stem with the inflorescence facing the green upper side. 
When the fruits have begun to set, the blade of the uppermost 
leaf turns on the petiole until it has come round the inflorescence 
so that its purple underside faces the fruits. As the leaf-margins 
curl back at the same time the infructescence becomes loosely 
enclosed and hidden by the blade. 
420. Selaginella (Stachygynandrum) Tansleyi, Baker [Selaginel- 
laceae]; ad S. plumosam, Baker, magis accedit : diiTert eaule paive 
ramoso, foliis majoribus haud contiguis ovatia basi hand oiliatis, 
foliis minoribus conspicue aristatis, bracteis obtusis. 
Caules continui, decumbentes, remote ramosi, subpedales, ramis 
ascendentibus brevibus simplicibus vel breviter ramosis. Folia 
majnni ovata. nitiilula. viridia, 2 mm. longa, ad latus superius 
magis products, basibus haud ciliatis utrinque late 
Folia minora ascendentia, ovata, conspicue aristata, foliis 
majoribus duplo breviora. Spicos 12-18 mm. longae, 2 mm. 
diam. ; bracteae erecto-patentes, conformes, obliquae, ovato- 
lanceolatae, obtusae. 
Malay Peninsula. Perak or Selangore, A. G. Tansley. 
XXXV.-SYDNEY BOTANIC GARDENS. 
Mr. J. H. Maiden, Director of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, has 
given in the Sydney Morning Herald an interesting and very 
valuable account of the origin of the Gardens and oi 
during the early half of the last century. The first instalment of 
this sketch appeared in the issue of the journal for Apis! 21 ; it 
was concluded in the iss "'*• With the object of 
rendering it more generally known, the sketeh is reprinted h. re. 
The history of the Gardens subsequent to January, 1848, the date 
to which present account brings us, which Mr. Maiden hopes at 
some future date to write, will be looked forward to with much 
