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smaller ef a imrme ones, which again heightens tl bl 
to the Pottiac 
Denies “Rowirt Besch. On tree-trunk, Salsette I., Bom- 
bay (no. 67); and on ay of a toddy palm, Salsette I., Bombay 
no. 68), Dec. 1908; leg. Sedgwick, st. I have compared these 
plants with Besche relle’'s Hon ngkong specimens, and they agree 
closely ; in the original plant the leaf-base is slightly more differ- 
entiated, with, as a rule, 3-5 rows of marginal cells outside the 
teniola at the shoulder, while in the Indian plant there are 
usually 1-2 rows only. Some of Peachaestieh s leaves, however, 
show precisely the same structure, with only two rows of mar- 
ginal cells. No. 68 is a rather taller plant than 67, with the 
teniola a little less distinct and not r eaemeommgp = so high up in 
the leaf, and also with the leaf-base more onspicuous, in this 
respect resembling C. Hampet, but a more soba pe | rigic plan = 
oth patyracs have the leaves a little pane than 
plant, and perhaps should be referred to var. icon Fleisch. 
But the difference is slight, ad scarcely, Ti think, worth a varietal 
name; indeed, at the best, C. Hampez, C. Fordii, and C. Thwaitesia 
are very closely allied plants, and their differences by no means 
easy to define 
0. Fordii. has = been recorded, I believe, from Hongkong 
and from West Jay 
HYMENOSTOMUM EDENTULUM (Mitt.) Besch. On stones, Panch- 
gani, 4000 ft., Western eee — 1909 po s rien — 
_ over H. Pancherianum pare J act Hires abensents. unites with 
H., edentulum, is as much smaller than the type a 47 is larg 
No. 80c is the normal form, while 86 is a little sales: but not 
nearly so robust as 47. 
HYMENOSTYLIUM XANTHOCARPUM (Hook.) Brid. weet ground, 
morta ae W. Ghats, May, 1907; leg. eri -Col. Kirtikar 
(no. ¢. fr. banks in shade, Fort Purandhar, Poona 
Distriee, pries 1910; leg. Sedgwick (no. 805), c. er" 
Hymenostylium Shephearde Card. & Dixon, sp. nov. (Tab. 
pluries divisus, pulchre interrupte nodoso-foliosus ;  folia erecto- 
patentia, vix 2mm. lon nee, sicca arcte contorta, angustissime lineari- 
lanceolata, acutissime acuminata, concayo- aavaiel margini us 
planis. Costa sat valida, dorso et Eicon levi eae nares, 
ect instructa, ad infimam basin sp muta cosiam paucis bre- 
(no. 13), st. 
