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NOVAM ECHINOCARPI SPECIEM 
Trapir H. F. Hance, Ph.D., 
Echinocarporum generis, a Sloanets americanis (quibus 
illustri Lib. Bar. F erdinando de Mueller revocatur *), | evissimis 
tantum notis distincti, hodie decem meeps species, quarum 
una solum in insula Java reperta est, quinque in Indi# montibus 
oriuntur, get quattuor parit feracissima Kustcals orientalis 
aga. Hise addere juvat undecimam speciem, cujus 
unicum ponaiies ehiteiad fructiferum, in altioribus prov. Canton- 
ensis jugis nuperrime detectam 
E. , Sp. Nov —Arboreus, ramulis glaberrimis, foliis 
=~ ah basi cuneatis a apicem ireaagh leviter pauci- 
patentibus basi solutis axeos apicem rotundatum nudantibus 
osseis 2 lin. crassis endocarpio purpureo-tincto plus minus solubili 
aculeis rigidis 33-5 lin. longis subulatis tuberculo parvo sep1us 
neta ‘culos pilisve Sheng antrorsis obsitis persis 
en in loculis solita 
5 ics pee shan, pro a Cattancitian: m. Sept. 1883, leg. 
rev. H. Faber. ee propr. = 22216). Proxime videtur affinis 
E. as Ben 
im - enus retineo; nam secundum amici de Mueller 
saratitie.s in sanedios Australianis characteres quibus stirpes 
Asiatice a Sloaneis dignoscuntur { prorsus evanescere videntur. 
SISYRINCHIUM BERMUDIANA. 
By W. B. ee A.L.S. - 
S convince at such was the case. Referring to the 
literature of the subject, I found this view supported by all the 
early writers who had actually seen the Bermudan plant. The 
pegs of the two species concerned is soon told. Towards the 
of the seventeenth century Plukenet figured and_ briefly 
described what he os ed the Bermudan and the Virginian 
Sisyrinchii, the types of which are still one in the Sloane 
Herbarium at the British sees Dillenius, who had oppor 
* Fragm. phytogr. Austral. iv, 92, 
+ Ejusd. op. v. 28, vi. 170. 
Benth, in Proce. Linn. Soe. y. suppl., 2,71; Boequillon in Adansonia, vie 49. 
