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phyllds 28, UmbelliferdB 27, Liliacess 25, B.oraginese 24, Scrophitl-' 
arineae 23, Polygonaceas 21. 
The number of species and varieties not included in the flora of 
British India, is 82 ; of these two have been recently described, 
Corydalis cyrtocentrcti Prain^ in Jotirn, As, Soc,^ Beng., Vol. LXV^ 
pt, 2, p, 20 {i8g6 ) ; and Sophora mollis^ Grah, var, Duthiei^ Prafn^ 
in yotirn. As. Soc,^ Beng*, VoL LX F/, pt, //, No. 2 {iSgy)^ p. 46^, 
The description of a new species of Andrcsace (A, Harrissii) will be 
found in its place in the list 
In the Flora of British India, Volume VII, page 329, mention is 
made of a new species of Diplachne (D, Gatacrei)^ a description of 
which by Dr. Stapf will shortly be published in the Kew Bulletin. 
Of the ferns, two new species, Asplenium Mackinnoni and Neph^ 
rodium ramosum, were described by Mr. C. W. Hope in a paper 
on the ferns of the Chitral Relief Expedition, published in the March 
number of the Journal of Botany for 1896, p. 122. The former had 
been collected previously in many localities between Kashmir and 
Kumaon, also in Sikkim ; but Mr. Hope having detected some 
important differences between it and A. nigripes^ Mett.^ with which 
it had been confused, has published it as a new species. Neph» 
rodium ramosum had also been gathered before in Afghanistan and 
on the Western Himalaya as far east as Tehri Garhwal, but had not 
been correctly identified. 
The most interesting ferns, however, collected on this expedition 
are Pteris ludens^ WalLj and Lygodium microphyllum, R, Br,^ found 
by General Gatacre in the Ziarat Valley, the former at 5,000 and 
8,000 feet, and the latter at 5,000 feet above the sea. Mr. Hope 
remarks that the most westerly extension of P. ludens in the Indian 
Peninsula is in Orissa in about 21 N. Lat. and 86° E. Long.; while 
L, microphyllum was not known to occur west of Assam,, Bhutan, 
and the plain of North Bengal. 
I must not omit to mention my obligations to Surgeon-Major 
D, Prain for his kind assistance in the determination of the 
Leguminosae^ and to Mr. C. W. HPge in regard to the ferns. To 
Dr. Brotherus I am also much indebted for the names of all the 
mosses collected during the expedition. 
