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molliter fulvo-pubescentia, acuta, basi rotundata vel obtuse cuneata, venis 
obscuris, petiolis 2-3 mm. longis. Racemi terminales, 6-7 em. longi, bracteis 
minutis. Flores albi, pedicellis 4-5 mm. longis ; calycis tubus brevis, basi 
concava, 4 mm. latus, 3 mm. longus, lobis obscuris late triangularibus ; 
vexillum erectum, obovatum, apice retusum, 7 mm. longum ; ale carinaque 
vexillo æquilongæ ; stamina libera, basi puberula ; ovarium pubescens ; ovula 
4 in medio ovarii linearis disposita. Legumen (unum tantum visum) 8 сш. 
longum, in medio seminiferum ; utrinque angustatum, glabrum, opacum, 
brunneum ; semen unieum, magnum, ovale, luteum, nitens, 8 mm. longum. 
Bamboo groves on the banks of the Yuen Fu River near Foochow. 
Hongkong Herb. 2582. Distinguished among the soft-leaved Sophoras by 
its broad calyx. 
The trivial name commemorates the great French botanist who, among his 
numerous other works on the flora of China, has added to our knowledge of 
Fokien plants in a paper upon a collection made in that province by Mr. De 
La Touche of the C. I. M. €. 
ВОЗАСЕ М. 
RUBUS TRIFIDUS , Thunb. Hongkong Herb. No. 2626. Previously known 
only from the Corean Archipelago. 
RUBUS PECTINELLUS, Mazim. Hongkong Herb. 2031. А Japanese 
bramble, now recorded for the first time from China. 
ot’ Spiræa BLUMEIL G. Don, var. Mazimowiozii, Dunn. 8. Macimowtezii, 
Schneider, Laubholtz, i. 461. With the abundant material before me I} find 
it impossible to separate this form specifically from the type. It seems to be 
rather a geographical variety at ihe south of the total area. Min Bank, 
Fokien, Hongkong Herb. 2674; Kwantung, Ford, 66 ; Ichang, Hupeh, 
Henry, 3506, 4115. 
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SpIREA PRUNIFOLLA, Sieb. Ẹ Zucc., var. INTEGRIFOLIA, Dunn, var. n. 
Folia integra. 
Banks of the Yuen Fu River near Foochow. Hongkong Herb. 2658 ; 
also De Grijs, Hance, 1218. 
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HAMAMELIDACELE. 
DISTYLIUM MYRICOIDES, Hemsl. in Hook, Ie. sub t. 2835, p. 2. Fokien, 
Dunn, 2684, 2685. 
DISTYLIUM STRICTUM, Hemsl. 1. с. p. 3. Fokien, Dunn, 2681. 
Sycopsis Юоххи, Hemsl. l. e. t. 2836. Min banks below Yenping. 
Hongkong Herb. 533, 2695. 
