﻿the leaf-crowned apex ; their length decreases gradually upwards, 

 giving a tapering outline to the tree. Whether this is conspecifie 

 with the fruit just described must of course remain for the present 

 doubtful. Dr. Kirk was, however, with Livingstone, and the date 

 on his ticket coincides with the time referred to in the quotation 

 just cited. 



Note.— There is in Herb. Kew a single leaf collected by Schwein- 

 furth at Dingbe, in the Niamniam Country (Beise nach Central 

 Africa, No. 3263). It is 9 ft. long, with large strong sharply- 

 pointed teeth resembling somewhat those of P. WelwitschU, but 



P. lemensis Hort. Lodd. ; Wendl. Ind. Palm. Cyclanth. d-c. 

 (1854), p. 46.— Guinea. 



P. sessilis Bojer, Hort. Maur. 302.— Tropical Africa, Zanzibar, 

 Pemba. 



Mungo Park's specimen (cf. P. Heudelotiatius)! 



THE STIPULES of BLEPHAROSTOMA TRICHOPHYLLUM. 

 By J. Bretland Farmer, M.A. 



It will probably be known to those who are specially familiar 

 with Liverworts, and with their literature, that the plant named 

 above has been described in certain handbooks as exstipulate. As 

 this statement is quite erroneous, it seems desirable, in the interest 

 of those who may wish to identify the plant, that the mistake 

 should be pointed out. 



The genus Blepluirostoma was founded by Dumortier,* and, as 

 at first constituted, included three species. Of these, however, only 

 the one which forms the subject of this note is, by other authors, 

 in Dumortier's genus. In his diagnosis of this species, the 

 author, in the works cited below, speaks of it as being examphi- 

 gastriate (stipulis nullis), and he has been followed in this by Dr. 

 Cooke in his recently published Handbook of British Hepatim. 



It is not easy to understand how the mistake could have origi- 

 nated, as an examination of the plant at once shows that the 

 arrangement of its leaves is tristichous. The leaves of each of the 

 three rows are deeply cleft into a variable number of transversely 

 septate filaments, the division reaching to the base of the leaves 

 except in the region of the fructification. It is possible that the 



(1335), p. IB, 



