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corolla is compnrable to that of Selliera, with which genus our plant, 
accords also in the stigma-cover, so far as tlie absence of cilia around 
the opening is concerned, but the indusium bears elongated very subtle 
hairlets outside dovvnward. The capsule is bivalvular and imperfectly 
septate. The seeds are very minute, lenticular-biconvex, brovvnish, Shilling, 
smooth and devoid of any marginal expansion, thus resembling to some 
extent tliose of G. purpurescens. The habitual similarity of this plant is 
with Calogyne purpurea, with which species it shares also in the colour 
of the corolla, and in sometimes also forming short stems. 
Utricularia capilliflora. 
Aunual, minute, glabrous; leaves all radical, spatular-oval, long- or 
short-stalked, sometimes undeveloped; stem solitary, finely capillulary, con- 
stantly one flowered; bract basifixed, clasping, blunt, very much shorter 
than the pedicel; bracteoles rather narrow, acute; lower sepal slightly 
bifid; upper entire, very concave; corolla lightly reddish-brown, the upper 
portion produced into two erect comparatively much elongated capillularj 
segments, the lower portion much shorter, fringed by several extremely 
narrow segments; descending protuberance turgid, blunt, about as long as 
the lower sepal or a little longer; ovules numerous. 
On the Adelaide River; Mr. Holtze junior. Height 1—3 inches. 
Root-tibrils very short and thin. Leaves 1 /s inch long or even often 
dwindling to 1 /i 2 iuch. No empty bracts or bracteoles on the stem. Upper 
portion of the corolla often fully x / 2 inch long and occasionally reaching 
2 /'s inch. Fruit not known. 
This is one of the most delicate of all vascular plants within the whole 
ränge of our knowledge. The average-weight of a dried specimen is only 
about *00617 of a graiu, and the fresh plant would likely not weigh very 
much more. The two long hairletlike segments, of which the upper portion 
of the corolla maiuly consists, are quite exceptional in the genus. 
U. Singeriana lias the fruit spherical, measuring l / 4 — 1 / 3 inch; the seeds 
are brownish, shining, almost linear-cylindric, about four times longer than 
broad, striolate but otherwise smooth and at both ends truncate. U. lepto 
plectra has the mature seeds dark-brown, from a little longer than broad 
to twice as long. reticular-foveolate and at both extremities truncate.] 
Reichenbach, H. G. fil., Xenia orchidacea. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Orchi¬ 
deen. Fortgesetzt von F. Kränzlin. Bd. III. Heft 4. 4°. p. 65—76 mit 
col. Tafeln. Leipzig (F. A. Blockhaus) 1890. M. 8.— 
Rouy, G., Remarques sur la synonymie de quelques plantes occidentales. (Bulletin 
de la Societe botanique de France. Tome XXXVII. 1890. p. XIV.) 
Teratologie und Pflanzenkrankheiten: 
Die Nonne, auch Fichtenspinner, Fichtenbär, Rothbauch genannt, Liparis 
monacha. — 2. Auf!. 8°. 36 pp. 1 farbige Tafel. München (M. Rieger) 1890. 
M. 0.30. 
Guerin, Charles, Experiences sur la germination et rimplant,ation du gui du 
1. mars 1882 au 31 decbr. 1889. (Revue de Botanique. 1890. p. 367—282. 
1 planche.) 
Penzig, O., Pflanzen-Teratologie, systematisch geordnet. Bd. I. Dicotyledones 
polypetalae. 8°. XX, 540 pp. Berlin (Friedländer & Sohn) 1890. geb. M. 20.— 
Medicinisch-pharmaceutische Botanik: 
Greshoff, M., Eerste verslag van het onderzoek naar de plantenstoffen van 
Nederlandsch-Indie. 1. Carpaine, het alcaloid der Papaija-bladen, Carica Papaija 
L. 2. Eerste bijdrage tot de chemisch-pharmakologische kennis van Neder 
landsch-Indische Leguminosen. 3. Overzicht der Nederlandsch-Indische alealoid- 
houdende Apocyneae. 4. Gerbera Odollam Hamilt. 5. Lauro-Tetanine, een 
werkzaam bestanddeel van sommige Lauraceae. 6. Eerste bijdrage tot de 
kennis der in Nederlandsch-Indie voorkomende cyaanwaterstof-bevattcnde planten. 
(Mededeelingen uit ’S Lands Plantentuin. VII. Chemisch-pharmacologisch Labo¬ 
ratorium. 1890.) 8°. 127 pp. Batavia (Landsdrukkerij) 1890. 
