elxxviii Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
The ey giness of liverwort in the ee. cena 
and Kashmir.—By Suiv Ram Kas 
$e os to ae distribution of Liverworts as observed 
Pi lg a recent journey through Chamba, L rend ae oye oad and 
J d he ith 
ammu are described. The only Liverworts m hh in Ladak were 
Plagiochasma articulatum and rohakigmeries ages iba varies The latter shows 
some peculiarities in its structu The number of Liverworts in Kash 
mir veil than i in + tie dieters fot f mitid Hima- 
layas. The chief forms met with were the following :— Marchantia nepal- 
ensis, nhs seme acca Pellia calycina, Pimbriaria scslcalinly one or two 
species of Por 
n the Sena ee — foll Whale forms were met Mar 
chantia nepalensis, Fimbri mussuriensis, Reboulia hemispherica 
agiochasma tercageoiae ane P. “prepress Grimal in ndic 
8 4 
The law that the number of Liverworts falls in vossing i Bist the east 
to the setae in the Western Himalayas holds good fer Kashmir also 
Cycas revoluta and Cycas circinalis—By Sutv Ram 
Kasayap 
Observations on the | nigh pee and ovules of Cycus revoluta are 
described, and a curious tree of Cycas circinalis vam ae branching 
is also mentioned. The f ens conclusions are arrived 
(1) In pe! revoluta one to three leaf Pade may appear every 
in very young plants; in older plants one clus 
saad every year; in still older plants one cluster feat se 
ry other year. 
(2) Occasionally ovules of Cycas revoluta develop a fully-formed 
rr perm and fy Sh on although no male plants are 
found in the neighbourhoo 
(3) Intermediate fo forms between the fertile sporophylls and scales 
ycas revolu 
(4) A dichotomously peated tree of Cycas circinalis is described. 
The presence of a * tent- tik in the seed of Cephaloiaxus 
pedunculata.—By B. Sau 
paper communicated to the ce Section of the Congress last 
year ae published in the Annals cf Botany, Vol. 34, 1920), the author 
brought forward some evidence for the vinw that, apart from Gin 
near i are among the 
the nearest known relatives of the Taxineae he Paleozoic 
group Cordaitales e n per records anot feature in t 
of of the Taxineae (Cephalotaxus pedunculata), which appears 
considerably to strength Cordaitalean affini i ? 
small apical prolongation of the female prothallus, which, 
surrounded by depressions i ch the archego n or 
nu 1 mem eas a -pole supports a tent. mparison of 
this terminal peg-like outgrowth to a tent-pole was originally made by 
a ,» who it in Ginkgo biloba, Seas according to the present 
author, is the nearest living ally of the Taxin 
is organ has been known teristi ds h 
Cordaitalean affinities, and its “discovery - in "eniee 4 was natur Fale # re- 
garded as a point of contact between the recent genus and the extinct 
group. The author considers it likely that if other members of the 
Taxineae are examined oh — point of view, a ‘‘tent-pole”’ will be 
found in one or more of th 
