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DINOCHLOA. 



Spikelets in a dried state straw-coloured, hardly a line long ; shoot-sheaths fugaceously white- 

 setulose, not auricled and narrowed towards the mouth, D. Andcmanica. 



Shoot-sheatlis fugaceously silvery, not narrowed upwards, at the mouth thickened and 

 polished green 2). Maclellandii. 



0. CSYPTOGAMS. 



FILICES. 



Conspectus of genera. 



Ctathea. Son hemispherical, on a vein, or in the axil of a forking of a vein. Eeoeptacle elevated. Involucre globose, 

 inferior, complete, afterwards bursting and forming a more or less persistent cup. Arboreous ferns 

 utth usually decompound fronds. 



Alsophila. As former, but without an involucre. Fronds decompound. 



Beainea. Sori continuous along the transverse veins near the midrib and also along the veins towards the margin of 

 the frond. Involucre none. Low simple-stemmed tree-ferns, with simply pinnate fronds. 



CYATHEA. Only species, C. spinulosa. 



ALSOPHILA. 



* Pinnules glaucous beneath, segments entire. 



Stipes and rachises (in Burmese plant) quite smooth, pruinous A. coniaminans. 



* Pinnules uniformly green ; segments crenulate (at least at the apex.) 



Sori placed in 2 diverging rows forming the letter V ; stipes and rachises glossy dark-brown, 

 smooth ; pinnules petioled, A. glabra. 



Sori placed in 2 parallel dense rows ; stipes and lower part of rachis prickly tubercled ; the 

 secondary rachises above densely villous ; pinnules sessile, A, latebrosa, 



BRAINEAi Only species B. insignis 



CORRECTIONS. 



Page 46, lin. 26 from above, read Acrocarpm fraxinifolius for A. combretiflorus (= A. 

 combretiflorus of App. A.) 



The genus should be placed in Caesalplnieae, having the petals in bud unequal and im- 

 bricate. 



Page 50, in the conspectus the characters of the species E. praecox to E. balsamea should 

 be corrected thus : 



f -I- Calyx narrowed in a longer or shorter pedicel like 8fC. 8fc. 

 t Lobes of calyx-limb distinct, vp to ^ a line long. 



Similar to E. cinerea, the branchlets greyish, E. praecox. 



Branchlets brownish ; racemes sometimes corymb-like, slender, short,. E. cerasoides. 



t t Lobes of calyx-limb obsolete, the limb soon truncate. 



Branchlets brown, at least while young (often wingedly) 4-cornered, E. fetragona. 



Tiranchlets white, terete ; panicles cyme-like, short, E. balsamea. 



Page 60, lin. 1, from above, for Psilobium read Morindopsis and for P. capillare read 

 Morindopsis capillaris (= Psilobium capillare of App. A). 



Page 60, Sarcocephalus. The species are here misplaced, 8. Cadamba belongs in 

 division * * and S. cordafus in 



Page 64, line 17, from below read Diospyros mollis, Or iff. for D. Kaki. (= D. Kaki of 

 App. A.) 



