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СЕЗМЕКАСЕ Ж. 
OrEOCHARIS BENTHAMI, C. B. Clarke, var. RETICULATA, Dunn. Folia 
subtus reticulata. 
Pakwan, Kwantung, Hance, 7561 of 1867, not 7561 of 1864, which is the 
type of the species; White Cloud Hills, Kwantung, Sampson, 447 ; Fokien, 
Hongkong Herb. 3364. 
Clarke included under this specific name plants with retieulate and plain 
leaves and made no varietal distinetion between them, because he believed, 
from the material at his disposal, that the reticulation was merely due to 
the development of the lamina with age. I have now, however, before me 
specimens which will not allow of this explanation, i. e. young leaves fully 
reticulate in plants of the above new variety and also typical examples 
showing no reticulation even in old leaves. 
Sk OREOCHARIS AMABILIS, Dunn, 8р. n. 
Herba perennis, scaposa, alabastris petiolis foliorum venis in latere inferiore 
pedunculis bracteis calycibusque lana brunnea vestitis. Folia radicalia, 
ovata vel oblonga, irregulariter crenata, 4-12 cm. longa, papyracea, supra 
pilis erispis adpressis vestita, obtusa, basi rotundata, majorum venis subtus 
reticulatis, petiolo 4-6 em. longo. Scapze 10-18 em. longe, lanatze, glabres- 
centes, apice 1-2-plo umbellatim ramos, umbellis bracteis lanceolatis, 
8-12 mm. longis, involueratis. Calyx ad basin 5-lobus, lobis 4-8 mm. longis 
anguste lanceolatis ; corolla alba (an semper ?), glabra, cylindrica, subobliqua, 
20-22 mm. longa, lobis erectis ovatis acutis 6-7 mm. longis ; stamina prope 
basin corolle affixa, sinus loborum breviter superantia; stylus compressus, 
apice in stigma bilobum expansus. 
Fokien, Foochow, Carles, 587; Shao Wu, clothing the faces of damp 
shady rocks, Hongkong Herb. 3363 ; Yunnan, Mi-léh, on cliffs, Henry, 
13,758. 
SCROPHULARIACE.E. 
МохоснАѕмА SaAvATIERI, Franch. W. Fokien, Pao Chai Hui at 2000 ft. 
Hongkong Herb. 3368. 
Apparently local in China, being confined to the S.E. temperate region, 
where it is in some parts a common and characteristic feature of the barer 
slopes of the mountains. The dehiscence of the capsules is remarkable. The 
horny endocarp seems invariably to split longitudinally down the middle of 
the loculus, rolling back elastically, bursting the calyx and thus expelling the 
seeds, 
