144 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
is the chief Tndino-piddusiny species in Africa outside the area oc- 
cupied by J. articulata. It is now largely cultivated in Java as 
** Natal Indigo”’ under the erroneous name I. leptostachya. It is 
z cat Boivin ex Baillon in Bull. Soe. Linn. ris: i. 
(1883), p 
I Halhotd L. var. shee poet tn Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeit. xxviii. 
P. 214, 4078, n DC. 
The type was i Alindings ascar, Boivin, no. 2214 bis, Nossibé, in 
collibus herbosis btek Djabal et Hellville ad Amponbilavi. Other 
specimens are—Nossibé, Pervillé. Maroa, foréts 4 l’intérieur de la 
= ae = sled ‘ys, no. 45. Insel flarsiber, Hildebrandt, 
a 7 “Beddome has specimens from the Tinnevelly Hills and from 
S. Travancore that are not distinguishable from the above. 
e following note occurs in Baillon’s description :—‘ Sect. 
I, Hamoria: cui ad tingendum, ex incolis, planta anteponenda.” 
I. cugrnavacana Rose in Contrib. U.S. Herb. vol. v. No. 8, 
p. 140 (1897). 
gerd Cuernavaca, C. G. Pringle, 1896, no. 6828; Bourgeau, 
Closely allied to I. eacelsa Mart. & Gal. (I. cal DC.), 
from which it mainly differs by its smaller flower 
A NEW MOUGEOTIA. 
By Wm. West, F.L.S. 
at Pokharia, Chota amc and sent by Dr. Prain. 
joe with it, though very spa ringly, were. Cosmarium 
» Labellaria sg: Kiitz., and Cymbella cymbiformis 
(Ehrenb. ) 7. Heurck, var. B parva (= Cocconena parvum W. Sm.). 
The material had been dr iod, and had to be soaked out. 
Mougeotia immersa, sp. n.—Cwspites jail intricati, fili 
cellulis 1-3-plo longioribus quam latis ; zygosporis subellipsoideis, 
subinde subglobosis, axe longiore transverse disposito, fere cum 
parte tertia diametri intra gametangium quamque, cum parte tertia 
reliqua inter gametangia, membrana glabra, crebro leviter et irregu- 
lariter subundulata. Conjugatio subinde sed rarissime lateralis est. 
t. cell. 20-24 Bs zygosp. 30-40, spe 40-48 
