Podostemon.] cxx. PODOSTEMONACE^G. (J. D. Hooker.) 67 



ellipsoid not ribbed. Hydrobryum lichenoides, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Seng. xlii. 2. 103. 



TENASSERIM; on branches of shrubs near waterfalls at Tavoy and Moulmein, 

 Parish. 



Plant 1-2 in. broad, adhering to bark, irregularly or subradiately spreading. 

 Leaves -jL in. long, upper largest. Spathe open, rather shorter than the pedicel. 

 Stamens unknown. I have seen no specimen of Kurz's Hydrobryum lichenoides, of 

 which the description is very meagre; as, however, he states it to have been received 

 from Parish and collected in Burma, there is little room to doubt its identity. Weddel 

 describes the plant as not ribbed, Kurz as broadly 8-ribbed. 



11. P. Wallichii, Sr.in Wall. Cat. 5225 ; plant a minute flat veined 

 lobulate frond, buds on the edges of trie lobes 1-fld. continuous with the 

 veins, o 5-7 scale-like subdistichous fleshy at length deciduous leaves, 

 spathe tubular, capsule 8-ribbed. Griff, in As. Research, xix. 103, t. 17, 

 and Notul. 378, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 541, f. 1, 542, 543 ; Gardn. in Gale. 

 Journ. Nat. Hist 183"; Boyle III. i. 331. Dicraea Wallichii, Tul. in* Ann. Sc. 

 Nat.'Ser.S, xi. 101, and ' Monogr. Podost. 118; Wight Ic. t. 1916, f. 1; 

 Meissn. in DC. Prodr, xvii. 70. Lacis Wallichii, Steud. Nomencl. Poly- 

 pleurum orientale, Tayl. mss. Blandovia striata, Lehm. mss. 



KHASIAMTS., Wallich -, at the falls near-Churra, Griffith. AVA; at Cheppedong, 

 Wallich. 



Plant ascending, about 1 in. long, veins radiating. Suds usually from between the 

 lobes, rarely superficial. Leaves irregularly disposed, more or less connate. Pedicel 

 -f in. Spathe dilated at the mouth, iuvaginate about the middle. Filament sub- 

 terete ; anthers broadly ovate ; staminodes 2 or with a third arising from the fork of 

 the filament. Ovary ovoid ; stigmas thick, subulate, unequal, divaricate. Capsule 

 narrowed into the pedicel ; valves persistent, incurved. 



12. P. pterophyllus, SentJi. in Gen. PI. in. 112 ; plant a very small 

 flat- veined lobed frond, lobes entire or forked, buds arising from the veins 

 at about the middle of the frond of 4-6 distichous leaves with winged keels, 

 capsule ellipsoid 8-12-ribbed. Dicraea pterophylla, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 

 xvii. 71. 



KHASIA MTS. ; in rivulets, J. D. H. 



Plant variable in form, appressed ; veins radiating from the centre ; lobes or seg- 

 ments short or sometimes 1^ in. long. Upper leaves the longest, about -^ in. long, 

 keel dilated into an oblong wing. Pedicels |- in. Stiff mas (imperfect) ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate. Capsule about T ' s in. 



13. P. minor, B'enth. in Gen. PL iii. 112 ; plant a minute stellately 

 lobed flat veinless frond, lobes narrow simple or subdichotomously branched, 

 buds on the margins and upper surface of the fronds leafless, spatbe enclosed 

 in a very obliquely funnel-shaped sheath, capsule ellipsoid 10-ribbed. Dicraea 

 minor, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 71. 



KHASIA MTS. ; Griffith. 



Plant fragmentary, fragments 1 in. long and less, very narrow, olive-brown when 

 dry. Sheath split to the base on one side, margin waved or lobed, fleshy ; spathe 

 seated in the sheath, tubular, mouth 2-lobed, longer than the pedicel. Filament 

 equalling the capsule ; anthers ovate ; staminodes very slender, half as long as the 

 filament. Capsule sessile, subacute, dorsal nerve acute; stigmas linear, acute. 



Sect. III. Selaginoides. Stems of two forms, flowering densely 

 fascicled elongate, clothed with imbricating tetrastichous thick scales ; 

 leaves of the flowerless stem with very long filiform tips. 



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