58 NEW SOMALI-LAND PLANTS. 
*41, Proroperma virivE Kiitz. 2. Dernford Fen, 1 mile 8. of 
Shelford, on Cladophora crispata. 8. Sheep’s Green, Cambridge, 
on Elodea canadensis. 5. Purell am on Glyceria fluitans. 
Although this plant is as yet firesondoa for the British Isles, 
I have no doubt that it is more or less generally distributed 
throughout the country, as I have met with it from several widely 
separated districts. It agrees well with Kiitzing’s description, and 
also with the description and figures given by Borzi (Studi cciphe 
Fasciolo ii. 245-287, t. xxi. -xxiv.). It occurs as an epiphyte on the 
leaves of many aquatic phanerogams, forming a closely adherent 
subparenchymatous stratum, which is generally fringed by fila- 
mentous outgrowths of unequal extent. These characters are also 
possessed by Fntocladia gracilis ee ae Ueber Entocladia Reinke 
und Pilinia Kiitz.,’ Flora, 1888, t. xii. f. 6-15), a plant 
which was placed under the fection Rndoder ma by De Toni in 
Notarisia, iv. (1888), 673, and shortly afterwards referred by 
Hansgirg (in she 1889, 58) to Kiitzing’s genus Periplegmatium 
as P. gracile Hansg. Moreover, the cells of Protoderma viride and 
Periplegmatium gracile are of the same size, and, as the plants have 
the same habit, I think ghee: may be justly regarded as forms of 
one and the same thin 
(To be continued.) 
NEW SOMALI-LAND PLANTS. 
Tax following are descriptions of some new species collected in 
Somali-land by Mrs. E. Lor Phillips and her pies | in the winter 
of 1896-7 and presented to the British Museu 
Otomeria calycina Hiern. Suffrutex ramosus lucidus fore 
glaber, ramulis foliosis apicem versus subgluti oenst ag op- 
ositis anguste ellipticis lanceolatisve utrinque ang s firme 
chartaceis 3-11 em. longis 1-3} cm. latis margine Sayre 
tenuissime revolutis venis lateralibus 4-6 utrinque notatis super 
saturate viridibus subtus glaucescentibus, petiolis 3-12 mm. longis, 
stipulis brevibus apice lobulis 1-3 lanceolatis preditis, sect on 
nalibus brevibus paucifloris vel dense plurifloris corymbos 
hemispheericis, Aorta 5-7 em. longis breviter se aay salve 
turbinato-campanulato longitudinaliter 10-costato 12 mm. longo, 
limbi 5-partiti — omnibus subfoliaceis paulum in aint bas, 
basi intus cum corniculis parvis alternantibus, corolle tubo elongato 
gracili faucem Svbidios oe dense barbatam versus leviter 
dilatato, limbi lobis 5 subsqualibus ellipticis 8-9 mm. longis in 
zestivatione bass ine ao vals staminibus 5 faucis basi insertis 
inclusis, filamentis brevissimis, shat dorso affixis linearibus 
4 mm. longis bilocalaribig nec reticulatim locellatis apice integris 
basi bifidis, polline globoso — disco parvo annulari-lobulato, 
ovario biloculari, stylo filiformi elongato exserto, stigmate bipartito, 
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