io Shiv Ram Kashyap , 
at least not always. I have observed this in the two species 
described here and in a third unidentified species from the plains. 
In all cases they were filled with minute granules which stain brown 
with iodine; I have never seen this appearance in any other liverwort. 
Fig. 5. Anthoceros erectus. 1 a sterile plant, x 5 ; 2, 3, male plants with 
Nostoc colonies, x 4 ; 4,5, female plants with Nostoc colonies and young 
sporogonia at s, x 4 ; 6, a lobe with three ripe sporogonia, x 3 ; 7, transverse 
section of involucre, x 70 ; 8, pseudo-elaters, x 300. 
Athalamia pinguis Falc. (Fig. 6). 
The genus Athalamia was founded by Dr. Hugh Falconer, 
Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, to include a plant 
discovered by him and described in the Transactions of the Linnean 
Society (Vol. XX, 1851). The description, however, was very brief 
and mainly dealt with the external characters of the plant. Schiffner, 
therefore, in the “ Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien,” placed it as a doubt¬ 
ful genus at the end of the group Marchantioideae-Astroporae. He, 
however, says that “ the genus is doubtless related to Clevea ” and 
then within brackets he adds “ or perhaps identical with Aytonia” 
