93. CONVOLVULACER. 167 
Dinetus racemosus, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 127. 
CuExtane: Ningpo mountains ( Faber !) ; Hun : Ichang and 
immediate neighbourhood and Nanto and mountains to the 
northward (4. Henry!). Herb. Kew. 
North-western Himalaya to Khasia, Burma, and Martaban. 
X^ 2. Porana sinensis, Hemsl., n. sp. 
Frutex volubilis tota pubescens, ramulis floriferis crassiusculis 
teretibus. Folia graciliter petiolata, papyracea, mollia, late 
cordiformia, absque petiolo 2-4 poll. longa, acute abrupteque 
acuminata, utrinque pubescentia, venis primariis paucis incon- 
spicuis; petiolus teres, gracilis, 9-18 lineas longus. Flores 
pallide ezrulei (Ford), circiter pollicem diametro, densiuscule 
fasciculatim racemosi, basi 2-3 bracteolati, racemis solitariis 
axillaribus folia excedentibus interdum fere pedalibus ebracteatis, 
pedicellis quam flores brevioribus; sepala tomentosa, valde in- 
equalia, 2 longiora oblonga, obtusa, 3 breviora ovato-acuminata ; 
corolla late infundibularis, tubo brevi extus pubescens ; stamina 
subequalia, glabra, corolla breviora, filamentis filiformibus an- 
theris versatilibus; ovarium supra medium pilosum, 1-loculare, 
4-ovulatum, stylo basi sursum usque medio piloso, stigmate 
capitato. Fructus ignotus. 
Kwanerune: without locality (Ford, 290!). Herb. Kew. 
Nearest to P. spectabilis, Kurz, which has narrower, more con- 
spicuously-veined leaves, and flowers twice the size. 
1. Dichondra repens, Forst. Char. Gen. Pl. p. 39, t. 20; DC. 
Prodr. ix. p. 451; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 240. 
Formosa (Oldham ! Swinhoe!); SzECRUEN (Bourne!); Hone. 
Kone (Hance !); LUCHU ARCHIPELAGO (Wright!). Mus. Brit. ; 
Herb. Kew. l l 
Very widely spread in tropical and subtropical regions of both 
hemispheres. 
1. Cuscuta chinensis, Lam. Encycl. ii. p. 229; Choisy in DC. 
Prodr. ix. p. 457; Engelm. in Trans. Acad. Sc. St. Louis, i. 
p. 479; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 226; Hance in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 83; Franchet, Pl. David. p. 219, et in 
Mém. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. p. 237 ; Debeaux, Fl. Tchef. 
p. 99. 
