90 On some new or imperfectly known Indian plants. [No. 2, 



98. Beesha elegantissima, Kurz, apud Munro, 1. c, 146= 

 Schizostachyum eleyantissimum, Kurz. 



SALVINIACEJE. 



99. Sah inia vert ieillata, Eoxb., in McClelland Calc. Journ. 

 of N. History, IV, 469, and S. elegans, Hassk., are both identical 

 with Salvinia natans, Hoffm. 



100. Marsilea erosa, "Willd., a plant which grows abundantly 

 in Bengal in dried-up rice fields &c, is a state of growth (not only 

 a variety) of M. quadrifoliolata, L. Prof. Al. Braun attempted to 

 distinguish amongst many other supposed species also these 2, 

 considering among others as a distinctive character the form of the 

 pedicels, whether they were more or less grown together, &c. I 

 have observed that all my specimens of M. erosa, however small 

 plants they were, with the leaflets very coarsely toothed, invariably 

 turned within 3 or 4 weeks into robust and large specimens of 31. 

 quad rifol lata, with quite entire leaflets, whenever put in deep 

 water. 



FILICES. 



101. Hemionitis Zollinger!, Kurz, in Tydsch. v. Ned. Ind. deal 

 XXV, 400 — H. fronde membranacea dispari ; sterili ovali-oblonga, 

 obtusiuscula, basi cordata, attenuata, repanda ; fertili subhyalina, 

 stipitata lineari-lanceolata, undulata. — Hab. in Java, probabiliter e 

 Banjuwangi in hort. Bogor. attulit Zollinger. — Caudex 

 obliquus, crassus, radiculis crebris firmis obsitus. Frons dispar ; 

 frondes steriles rosulatse, ovali-oblonga3 v. oblongae, obtusiuscula), 

 basi quidquam attenuate cordata3 et crispataa, membranacea), 

 laete virides ; stipites breves, paleis brunneis lineari-lanceolatis 

 dense vestiti. Frons fertilis linearis v. lineari-lanceolata, acumina- 

 ta, basi decurrente, stipitata, undulata, 2 poll, longa, 3-4 lin. lata, 

 subhyalino-herbacea, lutescente-viridis ; stipes pollicaris, herbaeeus, 

 pennse corvinaB crassitie paleis brunneis secedentibus adspersus. 

 Sori subcontinui. (Kurz, 1. c. 400.) 



Mr. John Scott, in his list of higher cryptogams cultivated in 

 the Bot. Gardens, Calcutta, quotes this species as an Acrostichum, 

 sect. Gymnopteris, but a mere superficial examination of the plant 



