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’have sepals five-veined. In specimens collected at Hakgala 
the sepals were found to be three-veined, and an examination 
of the herbarium specimen, C. P. 2376, showed that the same 
was true of that specimen also. The base of the lip of this 
species bears two elongated subparallel purple tubercles. 
The character relied upon for its separation in Trimen’s (?) 
key of the genus, column long, slender,” though true for 
the dried specimens, is inapplicable to fresh specimens ; in the 
latter the column is about 3 mm. long, and 1 mm. broad in 
the middle. — T. P. 
MgandamaleJ. — In an article on '‘Bidens Chinensis (L.) 
Willd. und verwandte Arten” (Engler’s Bot. Jahrb., Bd. L. 
(supplement), pp. 176-187), O. E. Schulz states that specimen 
No. 15023 in Herb. WiUdenow, named Bidens Chinensis 
Willd., was collected by Klein on February 29, 1796, at 
MgandamaleJ in Ceylon. As MgandamaleJ is evidently not 
a Ceylon name, this record appeared doubtful, but the puzzle 
was solved by Trimen (Flora of Ceylon, iv., p. 27), who wrote 
as follows with regard to a similar record of Blepharispermum 
petiolare DC. ‘ The original specimens were collected 
‘ Prope Uganda-maleJ ’ on ' 29 February, 1796,’ Wight 
says by Klein ; but this is apparently an error for Bottler, 
who travelled down our East Coast in that month and year. 
The place is now called Ukanda. The specimens, however, 
-are no longer in Bottler’s Herbarium, having been, as in some 
other cases, probably transferred to Klein’s, who was also a 
member of the Tranquebar Moravian Mission.” — T. P. 
Lastræa sparsa var. undulata. — In Wall’s catalogue of the 
ferns indigenous to Ceylon this variety is said to be confined 
to the upper part of Wattakelle Hill. Beddome, in “ The 
Ferns of British India and Ceylon,” states that it is only found 
on the top of the hill over the Hakgala Government Gardens ; 
this is apparently in error, as we have no specimens in the 
Herbarium from that locality. Some years ago this variety 
was discovered by Mr. T. Farr near Wettanagala Peak, 12-14 
miles east-south-east of Adam’s Peak ; and specimens collected 
in Maskeliya have recently been received from Mr. B. Maclure. 
— T. P, 
