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Hampe, Miller, or Brotherus in their description of the plant. 
ilson, however, noticed them in the New Zealand examp] 
remarking (FU. N. Zealand, ii. 71), ** Leaves somewhat gemmiferous 
at the.apex.”” Brown also, in his diagnosis of 8. Hookeri, described 
the leaf-nerve as ‘‘ gemmaceous near the apex.” The gemme are 
ay be roundish ey are frequently aggregated into irregularly 
shaped masses, with projections spreading out on all sides (fig ) 
The ge are at first green, but afterwards turn brownish; the 
external walls of the cells are more or less papillose. As transverse 
The loaf nerve of B. mnioides, as seen in transverse section 
(figs. 5-7), is composed of “ 
ere 1s no trace of a ‘‘ central-strand.” The stem is, in 
fact, formed exactly like that of Streptopogon erythrodontus (Tayl.) 
ils., which is figured in my Monograph of Streptopogon (Ann, 
Bot. xvii. pl. viii. f. 20 ( 1903) ). 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES ON TURRAA. 
By Epmunp G. Baker, F.L.S. 
ConstperaBLE difference of opinion exists as to the limits of 
the genus Turrea. M.C. De Candolle, our leading authority on 
Meliaces, in his monograph retains Quivisia as a distinct genus, 
but has a section of Turrea i 
to some extent between Quivisia and Turrea. But, influenced no 
Quivisia anomala 
nae | propose the term “ pointer-cells” as a translation of the German word 
‘* Deuter Pore the shige cells with little-thickened walls of the leat- 
nerve; and ‘‘ companion-cells ” for the German word “ leiter ”’ for the ve: 
small delicate thin-walled cells (cfr. Lorentz, Stud. es at. oe 
ubmoose (Flora, xxy. 247, 257 (1867) ; also Lorentz, Grundl. zu einer ver- 
f867-68)) der Laubmoose (Pringsh. Jahrb. fiir wissenschaftl. Bot. vi. 374, 378 
