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almost black, and the contrast with the ivory-white pistil is most 
striking. 
The group Aspidisires: includes the genera Aspidistra, Gonio- 
scypha, Rohdea, and Tupistra, all natiy es of the Himalayas, Burma, 
s Moulm viz. T. Stoliczkana Kurz, which appears from the 
aad rarer in the Flora . erick India = 325) to be the 
most nearly allied species. A plant described by Mr. Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 581, as Tupistra singapurana, collected in 
Singapore by Wallich (no. 5195), is a fruiting specimen of Neuwiedia 
Curtisii Rolfe. Live plants of T. grandis are in cultivation in the 
Botanic Gardens, Singapore, ara one has already flowered ; 
and one was also = to Kew 
ANDR FLO Sandy seashores near Changi 
and Gling: § Bitgupare: also Blakangheat Islan 
Potytrias premorsa Hack. Turf in Botanic Gandann, Changi, 
and <a ye spots in Singapore; Malacca, near the town. 
These two grasses are not recorded for the peninsula in the 
Flora of British India, and the latter appears only to have been 
collected in Java hitherto 
NOTES ADDITIONAL TO THE «FLORA OF CHESHIRE.’ 
By Speencer Moore, F.L.S. 
HE following notes, relating to Cheshire records, were found 
by Lady Leighton among Lord de ek 8 papers, but too late for 
incorporation in the Flora of Cheshire 
Cochlearia officinalis L. and C. anglica LL.‘ C. officinalis. Culti- 
vated, June, 1822. Root from Hale Marsh, near Warrington, 1821. 
The globose veinless capsule and the — rm leaves would 
induce me to keep this distinct from C. a Rive — below 
vole Aug. 1824. C. anglica_is tibte com abou 
beseris n than C, officinalis.” W. Wilson (with sane) in 
Her ay ore 
Rubus humifusus Weihe. In the her Herbarium of the 
Linnean Society are specimens (from the herbarium of Bell- 
Salter) of the Beeston Castle Rubus Tabellea ‘¢ex Herb. Borrer. 
Rubus Koehlert (var.): R. apiculatus W. & N. Beeston Castle, 
18.7.1844.” These bear Babington’s MS. name, under date 1860, 
R. Koehlert y pallidus, They are the same as the Kew specimens 
which Professor Babington has het called R. humifusus, _ which 
Mr. Baker referred to R. pallidus without the least ee 
Rosa canina Li. var. decipiens Dumort. Mr. Wilson’s Chashirs 
specimens in Herb. Borrer are from Over, gathered in 1880. 
Asarum europeum L. ‘In the wood near Rey. Stolterfoth’ 8, 
Rainow, Cheshire. Memorandum of J. D. Siddal, of Chester, in 
boa rogtns serie: I saw a specimen of the plant in July, 1875. 
