54 80. PRIMULACES. 
Survexine: Talienhwan (Swinhoe, hb. Hance!); KIANGSI: 
Kiukiang (Shearer!); FokrEN: island of Kulangsu near Amoy 
(Sampson, hb. Hance, 649!) ; PESCADORES Istanps (Swinhoe!) ; 
Formosa: Tamsui (Oldham, 314!) ; Corran ARCHIPELAGO (Old- 
ham, 547!); Lvonv AmcnrpELAGO (Wright!) Mus. Brit. ; 
Herb. Kew. 
Japan, and colonized in the Mascarene Islands. 
40% 93. Lysimachia ophelioides, Hemsl., n. sp. 
Herba erecta vel adscendens perennis ?, habitu generis Ophelia, 
Gentianacearum, tota glaberrima, 1-13 ped. alta, caulibus graci- 
liuseulis ramosis, ramulis apicem versus tantum floriferis. Folia 
omnia opposita, sessilia, semiamplexicaulia, papyracea, anguste 
lanceolata vel superiora fere linearia, 13-2 poll. longa (ramulorum 
lateralium minora), subacuta, basi rotundato-auriculata, subtus 
glauca. Flores mediocres, in axillis foliorum superiorum con- 
gestorum solitarii, breviter pedunculati, vel in cymas parvas 
laterales dispositi; calycis segmenta anguste lanceolata, dorso 
conspicue 1-costata, circiter 3 lineas longa, glabra vel minutissime 
puberula, costa apice breviter excurrente ita apiculata; corolla 
subrotata, lobis latis calycem paullo excedentibus ; stamina 
glabra, corollam equantia, breviter monadelpha; ovarium glabrum. 
SzECHUEN: above Changchou (Faber!). Herb. Kew. 
In habit and general appearance this has a remarkable resem- 
blance to some of the small-flowered, narrow-leaved slender 
species of Ophelia (Swertia). 
av» 24. Lysimachia paludicola, Hemsl., n. sp. 
Herba perennis ?, erecta, 1-2 ped. alta, stricta, omnino glabra, 
caulibus vix ramosis, tetragonis vel basi anguste 4-alatis. Folia 
opposita, sessilia, crassiuscula, oblongo-lanceolata vel inferiora 
spathulata, 1-2 poll. longa, apice rotundata obtusa vel subacuta, 
radicalia in petiolum attenuata, caulina basi auriculata, semi- 
amplexicaulia, omnia crebre nigro-punctata, venis immersis ob- 
securis. Flores albi (Henry), mediocres, laxe racemoso-pani- 
culati, paniculis pauciramosis, graciliter pedicellati, pedicellis 
floribus paullo longioribus bracteis foliiformibus suffultis ; calycis 
segmenta crassiuscula, ovata, subobtusa, glandulis linearibus nigris 
vel purpureis longitudinaliter striata; corolla duplo longior fere 
5-partita, segmentis ovato-oblongis obtusis suberectis ; stamina 
glabra, corolle lobis breviter adnatis vix exsertis ; pistillum 
glabrum, stylo stamina equanti. 
