AND OTHERS FROM SOUTH INDIA AND CEYLON. 
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and it was supposed at first to be a new species. It seems however to 
be scar ely separable specifically from S. liyulatum , but is at any rate a 
very pronounced variety. 
27 , Rltacopilum P. Beauv. 
41. Rhacopilum Selim idii (C. M.) Jaeg. var. breviaristatum Card. iued. 
On trunk of coifee-bush, Palni Hills, alt. 5,000 ft., leg. Fischer, c. fr. 
(n. 2990). 
28. Herpetinenron Cardot. 
42. Herpctincuron Toccooe (Suit, and Lesq.) Card. nov. var. 
excurrentinerve Card, and Dixon. 
Costa in cuspidem brevem excurrens. 
Shembaganur, leg. Queste, st. (n. 20 c). The typical form has the 
nerve ceasing just below the leaf apex. 
29. Tltuidium Schpr. 
43. Thnidium fflaucinum (Mitt.) Jaeg. 
Syn. Leskea glaucina Mitt. Muse. Ind. or., p. 133. 
Shembaganur, leg. Queste, st. (n. 19) ; Nuwara-Eliya, Ceylon, 1898, 
leg. J. H. Darrell, st. (n. 149). Upper Palnis, leg. Fischer (with 
n. 2989)— a fragment mixed with Ctcnidiun lychnites . 
30. Bfacrotliamnium Fleisch. 
44. Macrothamnium submacroearpuin (Hampe) Fleisch. 
Shembaganur, leg. Queste, c. fr. (n. 4). 
31. Ctenidinm Schpr. 
45. Ctenidinm lychnites (Mitt.) Broth. 
Syn. Stereodon lychnites Mitt. Muse. Ind. or., p. 114. 
Upper Palnis, alt. 6,400 ft., st. (n. 2989) ; and Kodikanal, Upper 
Palnis, on banks in evergreen shola, alt. 7,000 ft., o. fr. (n. 3077) ; leg. 
Fischer. These plants represent a rather robust, rigid fo'-rn Near 
Galle, Ceylon, 1898, leg. Darrell, st. (n. 153.) 
33. Ectropothecinm Mitt. 
40. Ectropothecinm cyperoides (Hook.) Jaeg. 
Syn. Stereodon cyperoides (Hook.)- Mitt. Muse. Ind. or., p. 99. 
Shembaganur, leg. Queste, c. fr. (n. 1). 
