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are sessile with obtuse scales. The anatomical structure of the 
ugm 
Lowii was Liab by Beccari from buds. His conjecture that 
it differed from B. Zippelii Bl., which has five or six lobes in the - 
inayat in having 16 lobes, has been confirmed by an open flower 
sent from As geen by Mr. H. O. Forbes. 
— Sir John ie hbdck Bart., Pres., in the Mr. 
J.G. Baker exhibited a specimen of Scolopendri ium Delavays "Frenehets 
a new species discovered by the Abbé Delavay in the province 
nan. — The fo llowing communication was then read: 
Hetaniéal Observations made in a Journey to the Naga Hills 
(between Assam and Muneypore), in a letter addressed to Sir J. a 
Hooker by Mr. C. B. Clarke. Writing from the station of Kohim 
4750 ft. alt., with the a: peak of Jakpho, 9980 ft. alt., about 
ten miles distant, he s the country above 5000 ft. is nearly all 
jungle; Sikkim plants laut predominate in number of indi- 
viduals, and make Kohima resemble Darjeeling, not Shillong. He ob- 
serves that the Commelinacee, Rubi, Senecio, and eotne, besides other 
groups, are nearly all identical with those growin Ww. 
on the other hand many Khasi i plants are sarsthentuiay absent. For 
example, there are not Khasi balsams, nor Jmpatiens —— nor 
. Lespedeza, nor any of the species of the Cheira Sacred Wood, &c. The 
pines and oaks are an exception; the latter form the —_ es ca the 
forests around Kohima, though Alnus is abundant, and this some- 
r 
feet from the ground, and cut the innumerable sprouts for firewood. 
Two species of Diospyros were collected. e flora is interesting 
and rich, though there are few new species. Mr. Clarke pe an 
vels 
7000 ft. on Jakpho are mostly torests of shrubby Str se gma six to 
twelve feet high, just as in Sikkim. There are several laur 
Llex Aquifolium as a tree thirty to forty feet high. The Conetencea 
which grows in the wet jungle near Kohima. — The first part of a 
be alee Flore Simensis,” or an enumeration of all the plants known 
from China proper, Formosa, and the Luchu Islands, together with 
their synonymy and distribution, was introduced by the authors, 
Messrs. Francis B. Forbes and Wm. B. He emsley. — A paper was 
read by Mr. H. N. Ridley, On the Freshwater Hydr ocharidew of 
Africa wee Islands.” A number of new species are described, 
Laine which site radicans and Boothia easerta are remarkable; 
