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butions to the Flora of Madagascar.” This includes descriptions of 
the new Incomplete and Monocotyledons rome in the col- 
lections lately Pedaived fro n and Dr. G. W. 
Park e only new genus is a Balnnophord pra resembling 
in habit a com Fo Spheria, which Sir J. D. Hooker paar to 
cell Phiten: but of which the material is still incomplete. 
A large number of the new species belong to widely rol pear 
genera, such as [icus, Loranthus, Croton, Acalypha, and Peperomia. 
In Lauracea, an order hitherto feebly. repr amaitadt: in the island, 
there are several novelties. Types characteristic of the Cape and 
mountain regions of Central Africa are represented by Fawrea, 
Peddiea, Dais, Kniphofia, and Dipe ig one species each, and by 
three Aristeas and four Aloes. The Dipcadi is curious because, as 
in an Angolan species gathered by Welwitsch, the tails of the three 
upper segments grow longer and longer in the upper flowers of the 
raceme, till at the top oe lamina is entirely absorbed. Of endemic 
types there are three new Obetias and two Tambourissas. The 
Bamboo of the forests of 1 Imerina, pie received from Dr. Parker 
for the first time in flower, proves to be the same species that is 
common in the interior of Bourbon. “Ot novelties nearly allied to 
north temperate us there are three species of Bromus, one of 
Stipa, and two Carices from the Ankaratra mountains, one near to 
wisa and the har fo ampullacea.* A plant not in flower, with 
ous compound phyllocladia, is probably an Hxocarpus allied 
the Norfolk Island /. phyllanthoides. There is a third species of 
e new Alismaceous genus Weisneria, hitherto known in India an 
has contributed a complete a Set with synonyms, of the species 
ve Cyperus known in Madagascar and the neighbouring islands.— 
congregata.”” This gasteromycetous fungus, which is nearly related 
to Geaster, consists of a mass of individuals closely seated ae 
on a corky stroma. These individuals have been found up till now 
with only one peridium, and the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, who first 
described the plant in 1844, treated the stroma as the hom ologue 
of an outer peridium. Mr. eer 9 ound on some specimens 
brought from Dammara-land b T. C. Een a true outer 
eridium common to all the individuals. From an examination of 
it he is able to throw light on the prion! sf Naeem of this 
fungus. — Mr. W. B. Hemsley read a , * On the 
synonymy of Didi Atti and on the alonipation oe the pedicel in 
D. pallens.” The latter saprophytic ama is set scattered in 
Tropical Asia, though apibaiet ntly nowhere very ¢ on. At the 
time of flowering the pedicels are reir than the £ Rowse, which 
are ies than half an om long; but afterwards they been 
sometimes as much as a foot. The object seems to be to carry the 
ripening fruit clear of ie wet decaying vegetable seiahais in which 
e plant grows. 
* Figures and descriptions of these Carices appear in the present number of 
this Journal. 
