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; ments. Stamens and style not protruded. Capsule ellipsoid, under 
E pan inc 
q . Banks of the Zambesi opposite Senna, July, 1859, Sir 
John Kirk. 
_. its plac in the eae of species in my monograph in Journ. 
Soe., vol. x is after No. 62. 
The same Sait tas contains a very fine new Notochlena Sone 
q the high mountains of the interior, allied to the Mexican and Andin 
NV. ogee ée. 
4 . Notochlena lepigera, n. sp. — Rootstock erect. Basal 
4 Escalon lanceolate, membranous, dense, very — brown, 4—-} in 
long. Stipes densely tufted, Paxaies, 2-5 in. long, pale brown, 
_laxly scaly. Lamina oblanceolate-oblong, bipimnate 1 ft. long, 
in. broad, narrowed gradually from the mi o the base, 
greenish and slightly pilose above, covered all over + agtieatli with 
ae imbricated feesttage membranous whitish-brown palez like 
those of the rootstock. Pinnz sessile, lanceolate, obtuse, the 
: Senteal ones the oa st, 1-1} in. long, }in. broad; the lower ones 
distant and very sm mall. Pinnales oblong, obtuse, sessile, crowded, 
ey ome caper Sori placed all round the outer margin 
e pinn 
Hab. Danke. Zambesi-land, alt. 6000-7000 ft., Sir John Kirk. 
A FORGOTTEN NATURALIST. 
men ‘of this type. Ireland is—as w eat expect from its as 
hist “i i behind in matters of "this kind; and it would be 
oe find, i even to kindle in the wor rking man of that 
nose interest centres in politics rather than in science, 
married. 
printing- -press and collected a library for the use and benefit 
his native town—the first of either which was known in 
( “Tmpressed with the absence of elementary works, 
