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and with them, the new specimens sent. The distinguishing 

 character between the two, is sufficiently evident when careful- 

 ly looked for, but may easily be overlooked, even when both are 

 before our eyes. In C. lyrata, the lobes of the leaves increase 

 in size as they approach the apex ; in C, stricta, both the leaves 

 generally and the separate lobes, have a somewhat pyramidal 

 outline, broader at the base and tapering towards the apex. 



Having discovered the distinctions and been thereby enabled 

 to name correctly my original specimens, which had been previ- 

 ously confounded under one name, I have also ascertained that 

 the Bombay plant is C. stricta, D. C, that my C. lyrata 

 (Icones 1098,) from the Neilgherries, is truly that species, 

 and that Mr. Law's C. stricta is a new species, which may be 

 thus distinguished from the others. 



Cythocline lawii, (R. W.) Annual erect, simple, slender, 

 slightly pubescent : leaves delicately membranaceous bipinnate, 

 pinnae alternate, upper one larger, serrately pinnatifid : capi- 

 tula short, pedicelled, congested on the apex of the stem. 



Hab. — Bombay. Belgaum. Law. 



Obs. — " Cyathocline stricta ? a pretty delicate plant with 

 bright green leaves," Law's MSS. The leaves, which seem 

 as delicate as those of a Jungermania, and which, by the way, 

 the pinnae much resemble in form, are large for the size of the 

 plant, some of them being nearly two inches long on specimens 

 nine inches high : the capitula are rather numerous, on slen- 

 der short pedicels congested on the apex, smallish, apparently 

 pink coloured. 



Spkleranthus amaranthoides, D. C. Judging from the 

 circumstance of Decandolle, having distributed the species of 

 Sphaeranthus under three sections, it would appear that they 

 present considerable diversity of character, which may possi- 

 bly lead to some of them, when carefully examined, being 



