310 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
In addition to the species already mentioned from the Neter- 
hat plateau and its vicinity there are found there a true Butter- 
cup (Ranunculus pensylvanicus), a yellow Raspberry (Rubus 
molluccanus), two Potentillas, the little Geranium ocellatum 
which is also found on the top of Parasnath, and many other 
alee LS maee I would urge therefore that every endea- 
vo e to potect this interesting local Flora, which 
occurs pare Hs along streams and which would be liable to 
extermination if Neterhat becomes a large hill-station. The 
Thesium, of which we have also a representative in the British 
Isles, is a little very slender plant growing among grass and is 
therefore apt to be passed over. Jn descriptions of this genus 
(The esium) I can find no mention of the peculiar filling up of 
the ovarian cavity with a jelly-like mass or a very thin-walled 
tissue. This is not referred to, either, in the excellent account 
of the very numerous Cape Thesiums by A. W. Hill published 
‘in the Kew Bulletin (1915). Whether it is peculiar to T'hesium 
unicaule I am unable to say. The point is difficult to deter- 
mine from dried material, but judging from the delicacy of the 
ascending spiral thread on which the minute ovules are borne 
1 expect that it is general as the thread could hardly be self- 
supporting in a free cavit This ovarian substance probably 
accounts for the extraordinarily rapid development of the seed 
after pollination: one flower being very young with the ovules 
scarcely visible when the next older has a large seed filled 
with white albumen, probably perisperm. 
Jussieua fissendocarpa was found in ditches in Purneah 
near the Nepal frontier. The curious dimorphism of the seeds 
has not before been noticed in the genus nor has the fissible 
endocarp, though a similarly corky endocarp has, as noted 
in the detailed description of the species, been observed in 
Jussieua affinis. Jussieua fissendocarpa appears to be repre- 
sented already in the Calcutta Herbarium in a specimen col- 
lected in Perak but named Ludwigia prostrata, an entirely 
different plant. The species does, however, approach Ludwigia 
y the more or less complete reduction of the second whorl of 
stamens, and on all these characters some botanists would 
sa. 
tylosia has been called ‘wild Arhar’ by the people 
in Orissa and has an extraordinary general resemblance to it. 
T would like to have called it ‘ Atylosia cajanoides’ as it is not 
only in the leaf that this segues occurs, but that name is 
occupied by a Madagascar plan 
ucuna minima is very Seitliondt in its genus from the 
remarkably small flowers and few-flowered inflorescence. Suc 
small flowers can only be found among some of the American 
