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Locality: Kanara : Gersoppa Falls (Talbot 3628!, McCann !) ; Katgal 

 (Talbot 3506 !, McCann !) ; Yellapore (Bell !) ; near Sulgeri (Bell 3357 !) ; 

 Dadmune (Talbot !) ; common throughout the Kanara forests (McCann !) ; 

 Honavar, at Alanki (McCann !). 



Distribution : Endemic in N. Kanara. 



A Correction. 



In vol. 32 (1927), 27 we made a new combination Hemarthria glabra. 

 Mr. Hubbard of Kew informs us that this combination is invalid and gives 

 the following explanation :— 



• R. Brown described the genus Hemarthria in his Piodr. Fl. Nov. 

 Holl. 207 (1812). He had two species H. compressa and H. uncinata. The 

 first, H. compressa, is accompanied by a descriptive phrase of three words, 

 then the letter J. denoting one of his specimens from Port Jackson or that 

 neighbourhood (in Australia), followed by Rottboellia compressa, Linn. f. 

 Suppl. 114 ; thus Hemarthria compressa was really based on Rottboellia 

 compressa, Linn. f. The Australian plant which R, Brown cited, was 

 incorrectly identified by him with R. compressa, Linn. f. ; that together 

 with all the Australian material is referable to his Hemarthria uncinata. 

 Rottboellia compressa, Linn. f. was based on a plant collected in India ; 

 our Indian specimens all agree with this specimen and are all Hemarthria 

 compressa, (Linn, f.) R. Br. We have no Indian material of Hemarthria 

 fasciculata, (Lam.) Kunth and those specimens identified by Hooker in Flora 

 of British India and by others as Rottboellia compressa var. fasciculata, (Lam.) 

 Hack., are all typical Hemarthria compressa. H. fasciculata, Kunth 

 is based on Rottboellia fasciculata, Lam., a species originally described 

 from North Africa and now known to occur throughout Africa, in the Medi- 

 terranean region and in America.' 



Our Hemarthria glabra, therefore, must be called Hemarthria compressa, 

 (Linn, f.) R. Br. 



The species is known from Afghanistan, India, China and Indo-China. 



The other species, Hemarthria fasciculata, Kunth (xxxii (1927), 28 of 

 this series) for which we had no locality, but which we included on the 

 authority of others, must be excluded, as it has not been observed in India. 



(To be continued.) 



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