118 SHORT NOTES. 
. S. virescens E. Morren, Belg. Hort. 1879, 225, 360, t. 19. 
S. Roezlit K. Morren , Belg. Hort. 1878, 811; Antoine in Oester. 
Journ. Bot. 1881, 804.—Acaulescent ; “tuft staan ap Pi in diameter. 
Leaves 40-50, lorate, 14-2 ft. long, 1 i in. broad, ones cuspidate 
th 
patent branches, 6-10 in. long, 4-5 in. broad when expanded ; 
- flower-bracts ovate, green, shorter than the calyx; pedicel stout, 
very short. alyx under an inch long, green, smooth ; sepals 
oblanceolate-oblong, shortly united at the base. Corolla onsial 
white, me longer than the calyx; tube ampullef ; segments 
e, 
corollas semients filaments filiform, spreading, longer than the 
nt 
Hab. Andes of Peru, alt. 10,000-18,000 ft., Roezl. 105, 106. 
We had it at Kew in 1857, but never knew its exact locality. 
(To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
Tae New Rovsvs (p. 82). —I am sorry to find that the name 
(lucens) proposed for this is preoccupied, having been bestowed by 
Focke upon a Himalayan pene. I propose therefore to substitute 
letus for it.—E. F. Linto 
Frora or Nortu Dae — Sibthorpia europea L., which in last 
month’s Journal, ante, p. 85, was reported by Mr. David Fry from 
the parish of Lynton, occurs in quantity in the parish of Countis- 
ury, in the valley of the same East Lyn river or by the little 
crated streams, where I gathered it both in last year and the 
previous one. It was also noticed many years ago between — 
and Clovelly by the late Rev. W. S. Hore. The fiora of this v 
county is being examined and carefully rec ord ded by a 
of which Mr. Thomas Wainwright, Head Master of the Grammar 
bes at pte So Honorary bein Hither he or I would 
ae 
appreciate any assistance from Mr. Fry or other botanist who may 
eilok or visit the district —W. P RN. 
amarca Mossgs (note to — One more species new to the 
cals interesting cane that this common Earopean sak North 
American species extends to Jamaica. +H. BoswEiu 
