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Balansa, 3457. This seems to be the usual wild form in China. It is 
usually a small tree with the leaves and panicles collected into a compact 
bunch at the end of the thin straight trunk, and thus very different from the 
graceful umbrageous trees of India. 
RUBIACEX. 
GALIUM ASPRELLUM, Miche. Hongkong Herb. 2799. А southern extension 
from its previously known area, which comprised N.E. Asia to Hupeh and 
Szechuen, 
COMPOSIT. 
АЗТЕВ AURICULATUs, Franch. Hongkong Herb. 2826. Known previously 
only from Yunnan. 
ҮАССІМІАСЕ Ж, 
vót Vaccinium CannEsn, Dunn, sp. n. 
Frutex omnino glaber. Ramuli striati, cinnamomei, vetustiores grisei. 
Folia lanceolata, leviter serrata, 3—4 cm. longa, chartacea, gradatim acuminata, 
basi obtuse cuneata, venis obscuris, pedicellis 3-4 mm. longis. Racemi in 
ramulis florigeris panieulas densas ad 10 cm. longas bracteatas formantes, 
bracteis folia parva simulantibus. Flores parvi, pedicellis 1-2 mm. longis, 
bracteolis linearibus pedicellos superantibus caducis; calycis tubus hemi- 
sphericus, 13 mm. longus, 5-lobatus, lobis triangularibus brevibus acutis ; 
corolla alba, campanulata, 3 mm. longa, 5-lobata, lobis ovatis acuminatis, 
apice reflexo ; staminum inclusorum anthers in tubulos laxos attenuatz, basi 
obtuse breviter calearatz ; filamenta puberula ; stylus breviter exsertus. 
Foochow at 2000 ft, Carles, 630. Yenping, Hongkong Herb. 2811, 
2812. 
This species might be taken for a small state of V. Donianum, Wight, to 
which it bears а general resemblance. 
СЕХТТАХАСЕ Ж. 
GENTIANA THUNBERGI, Griseb. Cha Ch’un, near Shui Kau on the Min, 
at 1500 ft. Hongkong Herb. 3359, 
An interesting addition to the flora of China as Carles's Kiukiang plant 
proves to be G. Zollingeri, Fawcett (Kusnezow in Act. Hort. Petrop. 
ху. 815). ` 
