310 MR. 8. T. DUNN : А BOTANICAL 
HAEMODORACEZE. 
\' ALETRIS SCOPULORUM, Dunn, sp. n. 
Herba perennis, 15-50 em. alta, scaposa, rhizomate brevi, radices fibrosas 
copiosas emittente. Folia radicalia, linearia, 6-12 ст. longa, 2-4 ст. lata, 
glabra, acuta. Scapa superne puberula, bracteis 2-4 linearibus 4-12 mm. 
longis in parte inferiore instructa. Racemus 5-8 em. longus, sepe 10-15- 
florus. Flores 4-5 mm. longi: pedicelli З mm. longi; bractes lineares 
pedicellos excedentes, omnes puberuli ; calycis tubus hemisphiericus ; lobi 6, 
tubum :equantes, lineares, acuti; stamina 6, sepalis opposita et eis paullo 
breviora ; ovarium inferum, 3-loculare, Fructus loculicide apice dehiscens. 
Damp rocks at Sui Kai Kau, near Foochow. Hongkong Herb. 3556. 
Closely related to A. glanduligera, Franch., and differing only in its acute 
linear calyx-teeth and its short lower bracts. 
IRIDACE. 
[RIS spEcuLATRIX, Hance. Hongkong Herb. 3561. An extension of the 
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known range of this interesting “adventuress,” which was only recorded 
before from Kwantung. 
DIOSCOREACELE. 
DIOSCOREA RHIZOPOGONOIDES, Oliver, Hongkong Herb. 3563. On previous 
record only from the islands of Formosa and Hongkong. 
D. ziwarBERENSIS, C. H. Wright. Hongkong Herb. 3504-5. Known 
previously only from the province ot Hupeh. 
LILIACE®. 
SMILAX LEVIS, var. OPHIRENSIS, 4. DC. Hongkong Herb. 3570. Hitherto 
only gathered in Sumatra. 
ARACE®. 
ty PINELLIA BROWNIANA, Dunn, sp. n. 
Herba perennis, glabra, tuberosa, scaposa. Tuber ovale, 2-4 em. longum, 
radices fibrosas copiosas emittens. Folia triangularia vel oblongo-ovata, 
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15-25 em. longa, membranacea, acuminata, basi cordata, sinu acuto, auriculis 
paullo divergentibus rotundatis vel acutis, petiolis 15-25 em. longis. Pedun- 
culus 15-18 em. longus ; spatha viridis, 5-6 em. longa, oblonga, obtusa, 
apice erecto vel nutante. Antherarum spica 8 mm. longa, spadice mire 
attenuato ad 20 em. longo filiformi ; ovarium 12 mm. longum, in uno latere 
ovulis plenum. 
