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though perhaps usually present, at times very inconspicuous or wanting, 
so have not included it as a varietal character. M. Cardot also has 
detected traces of an inner peristome (as described by Carl Muller). He 
also points out that Brotherus' diagnosis “ Alarzellen nicht differenziert ” 
is incorrect, as indeed his figure indicates where the numerous subquad- 
rate alar cells are well shown. 
5 *. 
26. Stereopity Hum Mitt. 
39. Stereopliyllum Blattcri Card. ined. 
On Bhendi bark ( Thespesia pojmlnea) Matheran, Thana District, 
Bombay, October 1906, leg. Lieut. -Col. K. R. Kirtikar, c. fr. (n. 73a). 
This very well marked new species of Stereopliyllum was sent to 
Brothems, and it was intended naming it after the finder ; the descrip- 
tion indeed was drawn up. It subsequently transpired however that the 
same species had been sent to M. Cardot independently by Rev. E. 
Blatter, collected at Khandala in October 1909, and had been named as 
above, and it will receive publication under that name shortly. 
40. Stereopliyllum ligulatum (C. M.) Jaeg. (Plate II, Fig. 7). 
Syn. ffyjpmim lirjulatum C. M., Mitt. Muse. Ind. or., p. 82. 
Stem and roots of a tree, Mahableshwar, W. Ghats, January 1909, c. fr. 
(n. 24), and trees, Fort Purandhar, Poona District, May 1910, c. fr. (n. 
91, 96), both leg. Sedgwick. On fallen tree trunk, 2,500 ft. alt., Bolain- 
patti Hills, Coimbatore, May 1911, leg Oueste, c. fr. (n. 24). 
Sedgwick's plant (n. 24) was kindly compared with C. Muller's type 
{JEuglosso joky llum ligulaticm) at Berlin by Herr L. Loeske, and found to 
be identical. 
A noteworthy feature in this and probably in other species of the 
genus is that in the lateral, asymmetrical leaves the enlarged alar cells 
are very unequally and irregularly distributed ; frequently all the cells 
on one side of the nerve base will be of this character, while on the 
other side all the cells will be linear except one to two marginal rows. 
Yak. nov. Sedgwickii Broth, and Dixon (Plate II, Fig. 8). 
Perrobustum ; caulis ad 5-8 cm. longus, vage ramosus, folia magna , ad 
2*25 mm. longa, 1 mm. lata, concava , elliptica, obtusa vel subobtusa, 
integra vel interdum ad summum apicem crenulata. 
On a tree, Panchgani, W. Ghats, 4,000-4,500 ft. alt., 1909, leg. 
Sedgwick, st. (n. 48). 
The size and habit, and the very concave leaves with rather more 
obscure, chlorophyllose areolation gave this a very distinct appearance, 
