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3991!) ; Kwanerune: Pakhoi (Playfair !); HAINAN: around 
Hoihow (Bullock !). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
India, Ceylon, aud Malaya: commonly cultivated for dyeing 
purposes. It should probably include the Indian P. montana, 
Nees, and P. fera, Clarke. There are Chinese specimens collected 
by Dr. Henry and others having smaller flowers and obovate-spa- 
thulate bracts, which may be a variety of this, or a distinct species. 
The synonymy of the Eastern species of Dicliptera and Peri- 
strophe is very much involved, and should not be accepted 
without exhaustive examination. 
l. Hypoestes Cumingiana, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
p. 1122, in nota sub Peristrophe. 
Peristrophe Cumingiana, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. p. 498; Vidal, Pl. 
Vase. Filip. p. 207. 
Formosa: south coast (Maries!), Taiwan (Playfair !). 
Herb. Kew. 
Philippine Islands. 
2. Hypoestes purpurea, R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 474; 
Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. p. 509; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 265; Vidal, 
Pl. Vase. Filip. p. 207 ; Henriques in Bol. Soc. Brot. iii. p. 145. 
Formosa: south-west district (Swinhoe !), Taiwan (Playfair !); 
Kwanetune: Macao (Callery !) ; Honexone (Champion!) ; 
Kwanest (Wenyon!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Philippine Islands. 
The specimens recorded trom Assam were cultivated in the 
Calcutta Botanic Gardens. 
3. Hypoestes sinica, Mig. in Journ. de Bot. Néerl. i. (1861), 
p. 117. 
Sourn-East CHINA: abundant in hedges (Krone ex Miquel). 
4. Hypoestes, sp. nova? specimen mancum. 
HarsaN: environs of Hoihow (4. Henry, 8419!). Herb. 
Kew. 
[ Dipteracanthus subdenticulatus, Miq. (Journ. de Bot. Néerl. 
i. (1861), p. 117), and Rostellularia trichochila, Miq. (loc. cit. 
p. 118), from South-east China, we have not been able to recog- 
nize from the descriptions.] 
