100 86. APOCYNACEE: ECHITIDE EF. 
Echites saligna, Delile ex Benth. Fl. Hongk. 221. 
Parechites adnascens, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1868, p. 299. 
KrawGsU: hills near Shanghai (Carles!) ; Curxrane: Ningpo 
(Cooper!); Krawasr: Kiukiang (Shearer !); FOKIEN: Amoy 
( Fortune f53! Sampson, hb. Hance, 11071 !); Formosa (Oldham, 
329! Playfair!) Huren: Ichang, Nanto, and mountains to the 
northward (A. Henry !); Suenst and Kansun (ex AMaaimowicz 
in litt.) ; SzecnuEN (Faber !); Kwanerune: Lofaushan (Ford!) ; 
Honexone (Champion!) ; Conran ARCHIPELAGO (Oldham, 563!) ; 
Lucuv ARCHIPELAGO (Döderlein ex Maximowicz). Mus. Brit. ; 
Herb. Kew. 
Japan. 
This well-known climber presents considerable variation in its 
wide area, and has quite a different aspect when trailing over 
rocks from what it has when climbing on other shrubs and trees. 
1. Sindechites Henryi, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1772. 
Huren: Ichang and immediate neighbourhood (4. Henry, 
3636!) Herb. Kew. 
87. ASCLEPIADEZ: PrniPLOCEX. 
1. Pentaneura khasiana, Kurz; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 
p. 4. 
Periploca Khasiana, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. pp. 740 et 746. 
Yunnan: without locality (Anderson!). Herb. Kew. 
Khasia hills. 
1. Cryptolepis elegans, Wall. Cat. n. 1689; G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. p. 82; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 6. 
Cryptolepis pauciflora, Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 493. 
Cryptolepis laxiflora, Blume, Mus. Bot. i. p. 147. 
Aganosma elegans, 4. DC. Prodr. viii. p. 433. 
Aganosma Edithe, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5me série, v. p. 227. 
Cryptolepis Edithze, Maxim. in Mél. Biol. ix. p. 774. 
Formosa: Taiwan (Playfair!) ; Kwanarune: French Island, 
Whampoa (Mrs. Hance, hb. Hance, 10576 !), along the Canton 
river (Sampson !), Lofaushan (Ford !). Mus. Brit.; Herb. 
ew. 
Eastern India and Malaya. 
