elxxii Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV, 
(j) Aspidium sp. oe by ae: original. 
(k) Nephrolepis acuta (Pre : ca original, 
(1) Pleoplticmemiranacea Teak: a original. 
3. Discussion :— 
(a) Reasons advanced in favour of the primitiveness of a single 
C-typed ae 
Brief discussion as to the i importance of the various types of 
leaf-trace in euiabtatinn the ects hes relationship 
The flora of Ladak or Western Tibet.—By R. R. STEWART. 
te oa ss a part of India with temperate sonu 
een visited by a surprisingly large bee of explorers 
who, it vallbete plants, but none of these has published a complete 
3. There are three main elements in the flora of nea country, = 
alpine, desert, and oasitic. The latter contains a large n ber of cost 
pea weeds. Although the desert is poor in species ae it covers mot 
e area 
4. The lack ra! forests i is due to the absence of water and 80 js the 
barrenness. Water is the only ing needed to produce good hapa 
f£ which r t 
5 bed the 
Kashmir and opie like Tibet. i the latter region 80 species 
found shove 16 5,000 fee cal 
: e 140 s sou es common to Ladak and the Eastern ae 
States 85 were cosmopolitan weeds. Of the rest, area were water-lov 
— and the rest wide-spread North tdi types 
ontinuous plant formation is rare, 83 m most of ener 
an esert Ace ad Ag the individuals separate. Alpine 
Two new Madras Phalloids.—By M. O. ParTHasaRa ie, 
IYENGAR. 
pats The ee 
-tieas aaniearthes not recorded before. - Altogether fourteen speci ange 
én collected. These show very interesting variatio f i Phalloid 4 
ment of th About three hu pecimens 0 
have been collected. All the plants are stalked osse bles that of 
ary disc over the mouth of the stem, WBy TOe 
Aseroe. But they show a great deal of variation in the arrang' of the 
p S. Some possess free arms a resemble @ pee? : 
A. arachnoidea kind me others possess a clath head pons aut 
Simblum. And some are midway between these tw and possess ing too 
clathrate head. So this species shows characte belong’ 
general genera, Aseroe and Simblum. lloids, in the 
The gelatinous layer of the volva of both the above Pha tissue as in 
Ge a traversed by anastomosing thin plates © ae 
A new species of hog Bald M. O. PartHssé - 
and M. J. Nar 
An abnormal growth hat of a witches’ broom ©” 
a wast raged a big i 5 pps Madras. Taginee. 
i 
un, Schiz , belonging to the Usti 
Proposed by the authors to Aen it Schizonella Colemant. 
