1918.] The Fifth Indian Science Congress. elxix 
tion, cannot for the sce a lack of information be oe hoe in the 
other genera, and make mplete revision of the fungi of a Yeast 
character, studied up to the present, whether r pathogenic or re classify- 
ing them by their known characters ta give the era 
m 
Ascospores, the transverse septation, the existence or _ of a filamentous 
mycelium, and the existence or not of Chlamydos ospore: 
On the genus Eriocaulon in India.—By P. F. Fyson. 
An examination of the genus Eriocaulon in the Herbaria of Calcu 
Madras, Dehra Dun, the Pacibvtp saa College, Poona, including that "al 
ot, and others, has shown certain de seicnainie in bor published des- 
criptions which have risdarives: © in frequent in incorrect determinations. There 
appear also to be several unnamed spec a des sate pete of the peer 
oe general morphology is given, and a seirinioe of the genus as it 0 
in India propos 
With a view to putting our Bagged pd of the genus in India in 
more satisfactory state, a request is made for collections to be sent Pasi 
all parts of India, and to facilitate ' the work of collecting a key has 
i i iffers 
general key known to the author, that of gap in not requiring the 
dissection of the flowers at the earlier stages 
The Andreecium of Plagiochasma Bg Secisaentiae L. et L. 
and P. articulatum Kashyap.—By S. R. Kas 
1. andrcecium in both the species is surrounded a scales which 
when Poked contain reduced plastids forming a little starch. These scales 
often show a distinction betwee ody and an rom 
of the basal portion numerous mucilage hairs are give 
The andreecium is usually cor or deeply bilobed _ anterior 
ends of the lobes are covered with closely applied young 
ung sca 
The antheridia arise in a — acropetal sebucinor art in each 
lobe, the youngest being found at ee 
.. Sometimes the andreecium n growing in the middorsal line 
without dividing for a considerable ns: forming a linear-oblong structure 
and then divides into two lobes which may agal n divide. 
Occasionally the andreecium show lobes more or less 
irregular’ y pla 
others being probably due to mere ipa sane of grow th 
6. The conclusion is that the andrcecium is a branc ch system a 
two or more branches ec comparable res the andrecium of the higher 
Marchantiales 
The Flora of the Anaimalais. —Bu C. E. C. FIscHEr. 
General eoeineice of the tract. 
3. Jungle tri ibe s ge their cultivatio: ‘ 
4. Division of the vegetation into 5 pe description and charset 
istic ‘Species 
5. General conclusions and synopsis. 
Notes on the growth and decay of Potamoge in the 
Chile Lake.—By N. ANNANDALE. 
of me, oe “hie Lake on the east coast of India, in ashen’ Few esd 
eg es greatly with the seasons, Potamogeton pe 
