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 CURRENT LITERATURE.

Critical Notes, Figures, new Indian Species, etc.

Trichodesma indicum Br. and T. amplexicaule DC. In a note in Rec. Bot, Survey India VI (1919) p. 347, L. J. SEDGWICK points out that these two species, often confused, are really quite distinct, there being differences in hibit, in the leaves, in the calyx, corolla, stamens and fruit. Confusion has been due to Roth describing as T. amplexicaule what is really a form of T. indicum Br. The chief differences are illustrated in a plate, and the paper is a good example of what can be done in clearing up mixed species, by careful observation, even without recourse to type sheets.

Fumaria indica H. W. Pugsley Sp. Nov., Proc. Linn. Soc. XLIV (1918) No. 298, p. 313, hitherto included in F. parviflora sub-sp. Vaitlantii in F. B. I. 128 (1872).

Impatiens Kleiniformis L. S. Sedgwick Sp. Nov. Records of Bot. Sur. India, VI (1919) p. 351. Very close to I. Kleinii Wt. and Arn., but distinguished by the lives of pubescence on the -pedicels, the sessile upper leaves with cordate base, and the absence of glands. Dist. Western Ghats at 1,600 ft. Castle Rock. Fir. August.

Vernonia Fysoni Calder, Sp. Nov. Bee. Bot, Sur. India. VI (1919) p. 343 (with plate). Allied to V. Wightiana Arn. and V. comoriensis W. W. Smith, but distinguished by the glabrous obtuse involucral-bracts, glandular 10-ribbed achenes, and the absence of outer series of pappus hairs. A tall subscandent undershrub with dark upper and very white tomentose under surface to the leaves. Dist. In light sholas at Kodaikanal, Pulney Hills 7,000 ft.

Habenaria ( § Ate) multicaudata. L. J. Sedgwick. Sp. Nov. Bee. Bot. Sur. India VI (1919) p. 352. 4 A distinct and curious species strongly characterised by the fantastic filiform appendages and enormous anther cells, projecting beyond the flower when it is held in profile.' Dist. North Kanara, near Karwar at 1,500 ft. Fir. Sept.

Asparagus Fysoni MacBride, Norn. Nov. Conlr. Gray Herb. Harvard ZJniu. (191b) p. 17, for the Nilgiri and Palni plant hitherto known as A. subulatus Steud. et Baker (1875), which specific name had fceen given previously to a S. African plant by Thunberg, Prod. PI. Cap. 66 (1794).

Primula chasmophila Balf. (from Bhutan) is figured in Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 8791 (1919).

Primula tibetica Watt. (Sikkim and Bhutan) is figured in Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 8796.

Ipomoea dasyspermajflcg, (Simla, Rohilcund and Deccan) is figured in Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 8788, P. F. F.

The Genus Oxalis in India.

C. C. Calder. The Species of Oxalis now wild in India. Bee. Bot. Stir. Intl. VI. (1919) pp. 326—341 with 7 pi.

Of the nine species now well established four are tropical American, two