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u-^-» j (sic) <^f <>aS"G v U ^jp «ijjU^ UftJifl^i^o o U/o ^JtlUL o^^* 

 j! ^ <**£ j «^ — tf J U ^J^fcf ^•*-=^r i f^i kij^-i * ^i^y of^s-'f, 



The expression «z panfsuds i raW i hi el, ' from five-sixths of the 

 month of Kabi' of the (Chagatai) year of the Loi (dragon)' is unclear 

 to me, and the substitution of the clumsy cycles of the Chagatai 

 Era for Akbar's Era, or the Hijrah, is surprising. The word bekdr 

 I do not understand ; &^1 a mistake for <^| without the madd, and 

 y£*J is a queer spelling for jte*$ or merely j**$ taghir. I know 

 nothing as to the validity of the Sanad. 





III. — A third list of Bengal Alg^t, determined by Dr. Qt. v. 

 Martens, Professor of Botany in Stuttgard, — communicated through 

 Mr. S. Kur z. 



The following is a continuation of Professor v. Marte n s* numer- 

 ous determinations of Algae, which I collected in the course of the 

 last few years in the Bengal Presidency, on the Andaman islands, in 

 Arracan, and in Burma. Two lists,, containing about 20 to 25 species, 

 have been already published in the Botanical Journal " Flora" for 

 1869. In submitting this third series of determinations, I have only 

 to express my deep obligations to Prof. v. Martens for the great 

 interest which he had taken in the study of the Bengal Algae, and 

 for the liberality with which he has placed the result of his exami- 

 nation at my disposal. 



The freshwater- Algae of Bengal, and indeed of India generally, 

 are as yet very imperfectly known, though the number of species to 

 be met with everywhere in our j heels, tanks, rivers, &c, appears 

 to be a very large one. The minuteness of many forms, the care 

 necessary in the preparation of the collected materials, and especially 

 the great difficulty which is experienced in the determination of 

 Freshwater- Algee in a dried state, seem to have been the princi- 

 pal cause of their having been almost totally neglected by Indian 



