WARDIA: A NEW 
1862. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 276. Roxb. 
p. 976; in E. I. C. Mus. t. 
| Or. v. 1. p 
—. Rheed. Mal. 9. t. 30. 
Stems flexuose, erect, branched, round, 
striated, hairy, of a firm woody texture, 
and of annual or biennial duration. Leaves 
. petioled, pinnate, varying in the number 
— ef leaflets; the specimens figured had 
three pairs; those now before me have 
- four pairs and an odd one. Leaflets ellip- 
tic-oblong, mucronate, villous on both 
sides, but much more so below than above. 
Colour light-green above, whitish beneath. 
- Petioles furrowed, drooping. Stipules 
yery long, thread-shaped, hairy ; a smaller 
. one of the same kind appears at the base 
Racemes spicate, five or 
Burm. Zeyl. t, 14. 
. ofeach leaflet. 
a six inches long, erect, with only a few 
flowers open at once. Flowers small, 
: . pale-reddish. Calyz five-parted, divisions 
— Suübulate, a little shorter than the corolla, 
- veryhairy. Corolla: Vexillum erect, obo- 
Yate, not bent back : wings and keel adher- 
E. : Filaments diadelphous, 
but the tenth not separating till after the 
fall of the corolla. Anthers short, broad, 
» mucronate. Pistil and Germen 
_ Short, hairy: style the length of the sta- 
_ ‘Mens: stigma subcapitate. Legumes pen- 
dulous, very hairy, four-angled, about the 
‘Period of maturity the back is elevated into a 
is re and terminated by a sharp black spine. 
m ds four to six, separated by membranous 
fe Partitions, truncated at the ends, four- 
c ‘sided, foveolated all over. 
“us annual or biennial plant is usually 
wa ay rich moist soils, near the margins 
mn 8(but is not confined to such places), 
ad 1$ in flower during the rainy and cool 
the most 
E 1. Flower laid open. 2. The same, the petals 
"s i lower laid open :— 
"OBTemOYed :— nat. size. 3, F 
Magnified 4. Legume :—nat. size 
228. 
GENUS OF MOSSES, 
183 
WARDIA: A NEW GENUS OF 
MOSSES, DISCOVERED IN 
SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
TaB. XXV. 
Whilst herborizing in the rocky bed of 
a rivulet on Table Mountain, Cape of Good 
Hope, Mr. Harvey's attention was struck 
with the appearance of a Moss, growing in 
a situation precisely similar to that which 
is described as the station of Scouleria 
aquatica in North- West America, namely, 
on stones washed by the running stream ; 
and he was still more surprised to find that 
it further agreed with that Moss in some 
of its more remarkable features, particu- 
larly in the firm union of the operculum 
with the columella, after the former has 
separated from the capsule. “ It certainly 
is," as Mr. Harvey observes, *' not a little 
remarkable that so obvious and so unusual 
* 4 x. JA satih e 1 M, 
a 
thus widely separated geographically, and 
only in these.” Mr. Harvey’s Moss, how- 
ever, affords ample characters for the for- 
mation of a new genus, which I am per- 
mitted to join its discoverer in dedicating 
to N. B. Ward, Esq., an ardent promoter 
of Botany in all its departments, deeply 
attached to the study of Cryptogamie and 
of Mosses in particular: and who has laid 
open a new field to the philosophical in- 
quirer, by his method of preserving living 
plants during long voyages, and of culti- 
vating them in the midst of large cities in 
closed cases.! 
WARDIA. Harv. and Hook. 
Gen. CHAR. Seta lateralis et terminalis, 
elongata, spiraliter torta. Capsula ova- 
lis, demum subturbinata. Peristomium 
simplex ; e membrana brevi erecta, lon- 
gitudinaliter transversimque striata, irre- 
gulariter fissa. Operculum ad columel- 
lam persistentem arcte adnatum. Calyp- 
tra dimidiata.—Muscus aquaticus, ha- : = 
bitu Scoulerie, diversifolius Seta insig- — — 
niter hygrometrica. 
Wardia hygrometrica. 
(Tas. XXV.) 
Harv. et Hook. 
page 317 of vol. I, of this Journal. 
