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10. P. crin'da, Wils., is generally very readily distiuguishecl from its allies by the long hair-like points of its leaves, which are obtuse, and its oval transparent capsule showing the sporangium not contiguous with the external walls ; in its octofarious leaves it agrees with P. Wilsoni, but ditfers by its smooth calyptra, and in the areolation of its leaves.

11. P. virulifolia, n. sp. {P. pallida, Braithwaite, in Journ. of Bot. VIII. 255, non Lindberg) ; leaves obovato-spathulate, obtuse or slightly acute; nerve not very stout, excurrent into a short point ; n)argin recurved about the middle ; cells in the upper part hexagonal or nearly square, their external walls with minute protuberances, obscure with chlorophyll, lower cells oblong, hyaline", smooth; seta short; capsule oblong; lid rostrate; antheridia in the axils of the comal leaves. Hab. Plymouth, Mr. Holmes ; also in Wilson's Muse. Brit., amongst additional specimens of P. crinita. From P. crlnita this differs in its larger and wider leaves, with the upper cells less obscure and less evidently tuberculated, the lower cells less elongated, and the short and slender nerve.

P. pallida, Liudberg, belongs to this section of the arrangement, which is described in his review of the European Tortula and Trlcho- stoiiifB as having octofarious, panduriform leaves with cells " Irevissimis," the nerve long and fragile, the seta " aureoflava " ; capsule " cylindrico- oblonga," gymnostomous ; operculum rostrate, indistinctly twisted ; calyp- tra smooth ; antheridia in the axils of the comal leaves. This was gathered on the coast of Spain, and, from the precision of the description, must be distinct from all our British species.

��TERNIO EUGENIARUM NOVARUM SlNENSIUM. Pkofeet Henr. F. Hance, Ph.D., c^et.

I. Eugenia (Syzygium) minutiflora, sp. nov. ; frutescens, glaberrima, ramis teretibus cortice fusco-brunneo vestitis, ramulis parum compressis, foliis oppositis coriaceis obovatis obtusissimis nunc subemarginatis supra lucidis costa impressa venis inconspicuis subtus subopacis costa prominula venisque tenuibus paulo elevatis margiue recurvis 1-2-j poll, longis, bus et terminalibus paucifloris foliis brevioribus, calycis tubo obconico tetragono vix lineam longo supra ovarium conspicue producto apice tnui- cato segmentis dentiformibus, pctalis orbiculatis (quatcnus e florum non- dum expausorum autopsia dijudicare liceat) singulatim deciduis.
 * — 1;^ poll, latis in petiolum bilinealem cuneato-attenuatis, cymis axillari-

In colliculo juxta oppiduni Shui-tung, ad extremitatem australiorem prov. Cantoniensis, die 15 Novembris, 1866, coUegerunt Sampson et Hance. (Exsicc. n. 13754.)

Pone Sysygiuvi huxifolium. Hook, et Arn. collocanda ; sed optime disi tincta, foliis majoribus, floribus minimis, calyceque prisuiatico.

II. Eugenia (Eneugenia) Grijsii, sp. nov. ; undique glaberrima, ramis teretibus cortice fusco-cinerco obductis, ramulis tetragonis, foliis crebris oppositis et ternis tenuiter coriaceis oblongis obtusiusculis supra costa impressa venisque inconspicuis lajvibus lucidulis subtus opacis sub leute tantura minutissime ferrugineo-punctatis costa venisque tenuibus prominulis margiue recurvis 8-10 lin. longis 3-4 lin. latis in petiolum brevissinnun cuueatis, pcduuculis latcralibus solitariis unitloris biliucalibus, lloribus

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