PELLIA NEESIANA IN BRITAIN 275 
Hab. Costa Rica, A. Tonduz. Flowered by M. W. Barbey at 
Chambésy, near Geneva, after whose gardener, M. Paul Reanilier 
the species is named by request. 
Physosiphon minor, sp.nov. Planta pumila foliis anguste 
ellipeoideis apice vix emarginatis, basi in petiolum brevem angus- 
tatis; racemo solitario, 8-10-floro, ares vic bed bracteis 
brevibus truncatis; floribus ochraceis vix ongis, sepalis 
ad medium connatis, lobis subequalibus ; statis ‘minutis spathu- » 
latis obtusis; labello ad pedem columne articulato atro-sanguin 
ellipsoideo, lobo br suborbiculare retake a iateralibus 
brevibus, loborum margine crispulato; ¢ guste alata 
anthera Pes orn polliniis breviter veifornntht us. 
Leaves 85-4 cm. long, barely 1 cm. broad; the scarious bract 
sheathing: base of leaf and raceme barely 1 cm. long. Raceme 
7-8 cm. long, 2-2-5 cm. below the lowest flower; fertile bracts 
scarious, tubular, broadening above, 2 mm. long; pedicels 8 mm 
long, bidbee rele barely 2 mm. long, lobes blunt, sae petals 
one-nerved, m. long, less than *5 mm. broad at the top, of a 
pale hie oli: lip deep binsaie ellipsoidal below the apical 
lobe, less than 2 mm. long, -75 mm. broad, la aie ite very 
shallow ; column 1:5 mm. long, foot ‘75 mm.; ovary 1°5 mm. long. 
A distinet little species, ree hese Fr. pied Badr ‘s Rolfe, 
but with flowers barely half the siz 
Hab. Costa “a he d. Tor duz. ” wee by M. W. Barbey at 
Chambésy, near Geneva 
PELLIA NEESIANA Liver. IN BRITAIN. 
By Symers M. Macvicar. 
Tus hepatic, which I have recently found in three localities in 
Moidart, West Inverness, has apparently not been previously known 
from the British Is les. The essential points, inflorescence and fruit, 
which distinguish it from its allies, are only to be found at an earlier 
period of the year than that at which many botanists can search 
reget page — 2% plant has probably been overlooked is 
P. calycina, or for P. epiphyila with narrow fronds. It 
probaly wiley distributed i in — 
_ In Moidar 
leestana occurs 1n wet cociggg associa ated 
The fr — 
being eats inguishable with sinwinis when eee. The esumeer 
fronds are reddish brown to dark green, frequently wavy at the 
edges; the older ones are dark brown, narrower, @ and flat. 
resembles calycina in being dioicous, but the male pine is without 
e hammer-shaped furcate innovations of the lat The mos 
= ta character between the pe species lies in sie ——. 
of the interior layer of the capsule wall, calycina being entirely 
without rings, while the present plant agrees with ae! in 
