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WILLIS : PODOSTBMACEÆ 
L. zeylanica konkanica ; L. spp. indicæ, Auctt . — 
Thallus to 6 or 10 inches, with fiahelliform lobes and 
crowded growing points, occasionally tending to ribbon 
forms with single or few growing points. Leaves 
6-15 mm. Cupule short or long, often foliose when 
young. Flowers often nodding in bud. Fruit pedicel 
very variable, averaging 8-9 mm. Fruit 1-|-2| mm. 
long, obovoid, light brown, otherwise as in preceding. 
Western India. Igatpuri in the Thul Ghat,* Willis, 1,800 
feet ! Kasara, Thul Ghat,t 800 feet, Willis ! Khandalla 
and Lanauli,J in the Bhor Ghat, 1,500-2,500 feet, 
common, Willis ! Sakarpathar, near Lanauli, Woodrow ! 
Tiger Leap, near Khandalla, Woodrow ! Khadshi river, 
near Bhorkus, west of Poona, R. K. Bhide ! The 
Konkan, Dalzell, Law, Ritchie, &c., in herbaria ; speci- 
mens too fragmentary for determination. 
EUPODOSTEIVIE/E. 
DICRÆA (male Dicræia) (Du Pet. Th., Nov. Gen. Madag., 
p. 2, No. 4, 1806), Tul. in Ann. Sc. Nat., 3 ser., t. XI., 1849, 
p. 100, and Podo. Monogr., p. 114 ; Wedd. in DC. Prodr., 
XVII,, p. 67 ; Wight, Warming, 11. cc. ; Podostemonis spp.^ 
Griffith in As. Res., XIX., 103 ; Gardner in Calc. J.N.H., VII., 
p. 179, and in Flora, 8, p. 40; Bentham and Hooker, Hooker in 
FI. Brit. India; Trimen in FI. Ceyl., &c.; Poly pleur urn ^ Tayl. 
MS. ex Tul., Warming, p.p. ; Lads (Lindl.), Steud., p.p. 
Flower zygomorphic, naked. Stamens (2 or 1) with stami- 
nodes on either side of common axis. Ovary smooth, ripen- 
ing to 8- (rarely 8-12-) ribbed isolobous fruit with oo seeds. 
* In a stream below the Bombay road on the right-hand side going from 
Igatpuri, at about the 31st milestone. 
f In streams crossing the road to Bombay below Kasara station, and 
especially in the large stream about one mile down the road, at a series 
of rapids about ^ mile down stream from the bridge. 
% Enormous quantities in the stream below the Hamilton Hotel on the 
left going from Khandalla to Lanauli ; also in stream on the right after 
crossing the railway from the Hamilton Hotel, and in nearly all streams 
in the district and on far side of Sakarpathar. 
