146 ON A NEW CEYLONESE ACROSTICHUM. 
in the Lizard district, considerably to the south-west of Plymouth. (Vide 
Johns's * Week at the Lizard, p. 289.) 
nculoides, L. 
in the extreme south-west of Cornwall. f 
ith the absent species I have not included some which, although 
mouth district, since, as regards these, it is their absence from a conside- 
rable part of the south-west of England, and not from the smaller Ply- 
mouth tract that is remarkable. 
ON A NEW CEYLONESE ACROSTICHUM. 
By J. G. Baker, F.L.S. 
sterilibus subsessilibus anguste ligt glab embranaceis viridibus 
nullo modo squa obtusis margine obscure late repandulis basi cu- 
elongatis vena unica centrali decurvata scpissime præditis, frondibus fer- 
tilibus gracillimis filiformibus longe petiolatis. 
Discovered by Mr. George Wall and Major Hutchison near Mooroo- 
Rhizome slender, flexuose, wide-creeping, 1-1 line thick, clothed with 
narrow-ligulate, 8-9 inches long, 2-3 lines broad at the middle, blunt at 
the point, the edge distantly obscurely wavy, the base cuneate ; venation 
consisting of a single row between the midrib and edge of elongated areole, 
which are not connected with the edge, but have usually a single decurrent ; 
central free vein striking off from the outer border. Fertile fronds Mi 
form, 6-8 inches long, on brown, slender, erect, polished stems, 3- 
inches long. do 
A next neighbour to 4. lanceolatum, Hook. and Baker,, Synopsis File 
cum, p. 420, from which it differs mainly in the much narrower ligulate 
barren frond, with its uniserial areolation. 
ON A CHINESE CULINARY VEGETABLE. 
By H. F. Hawoz, Pu.D., ETC. 
Amongst the vegetables in esteem amongst the natives here is one 
lled by them Kau-sun, a s 
. 
reject it, as some do, for the simple reason that it is Chinese, under sh 
i n 
; € As b : 
pieces, of a white colour, 24 to 34 inches long, and 1 to 14 inch in diameter, 
