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the Bermuda islands; 4. Hooferia Baileyana (Harv.), a genus established 
upon the Chylocladia Batleyana described by Harvey in his Nereis Borealt 
Americana 185, pl. 80; 5. Diplocystis Browne@ (Callophyllis Browne@ J. Ag. 
Bidr. Alg. Syst. 4: 36), West Indies (Curtiss); 6. Liagora oppostta, Florida ; 
7. L. tenuis, Florida; 8. L. corymbosa, Florida and the Bermuda islands; 9. Z. 
paniculata, West Indies (Czrtiss). On account of the homonymous genus 
Diplocystis proposed by Berkeley and Curtiss (Cuban Fungi 344; cf. De 
Toni in Saccardo Syll. Fung. 7": 92), it is necessary to change the name given 
by Agardh and to use Pile mihii—DeE Ton. 
ITEMS OF TAXONIC INTEREST are as follows: In the continuation of his 
work upon Pofentil/a Rydberg describes three new species, ?. ramud/osa 
from Arizona, P. éicrenata from Colorado and New Mexico, and ?. mil/efolia 
from California. Davenport has given a full account,“ with Faxon’s illustra- 
tions, of his new AsPzdium simudatum, published in this journal.** Mr. Henry 
Ridley has published *®° an account of the Orchidacee, Apostaciacee, and 
Cyrtandracez of the Malay peninsula. Eighty-seven genera of orchids are 
represented, fifteen of which are confined to the Malay peninsula and archi- 
pelago, and four of which are described as new, Staurochilus, Renantherella, 
Pelatantheria, Ascochilus. The genus Dendrobium is the largest, being 
represented by seventy-eight species. No than 130 new species of 
orchids are described, and about thirty-five new species of Cyrtandracee. 
Mr. R. Allen Rolfe has published a revision of the genus Vanilla. It is 
widely diffused throughout the forest region of the tropics, but the species are _ 
very local. Fifty species are known, and of these twenty-nine are American, _ 
eleven Asiatic, and ten African. * The greatest display of the genus is in Bra- 
zil and Guiana. H.Christ has described" numerous new species of ferns 
from Costa Rica. Professor E. L. Greene has issued another fascicle * of new 
‘species belonging to the following genera : Crepis (4 spp.), Allocarya (3 spp ode 
Oreocarya(g spp.). M. C. De Candolle has published * an enumeration of the _ 
Begoniacee of Costa Rica, the genus Begonia containing twenty species, five 
of which are described as new. Dr. F. W. Klatt has published * a second © 
saints of the Composit of Costa Ries, the first eas published in the same — 
“3 Bull. Torr. Bot. ‘ChB ia: 1896. 
Garden and Forest g: 484. —— 
*s BoT. GAZ. 19:495. 1894. 
6 Jour. Linn. Soc. 32 + 213-416, = 1896. : 
7 Jour. Linn. Soc. 32: 439-478. 1 oe 
* Bulletin VHerb. Boiss. 47057-663, 1896 coormiatis Roy. Bot. Rel +9516 
