68. BUBIACEJE : ANTHOSPEBME.E. 391 



68. KTTBIACEiE : ANTHosPEBMEiE. 



1 . Serissa Democritea, Baill. ex Franchet, PL David, p. 154. 

 Democritea serissoides, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 540. 



Kiangstj : Kiangnan (Staunton !) ; Chekiang (Staunton !), 

 Kouangfouchiu (Poll ex Franchet in litt.) ; Kiangsi : Kiukiang 

 (David, 805, ex Franchet); Hupeh : Ichang (A. Henry, 616!) ; 

 Kwangtung : Lienchau (Lamont !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



2. Serissa foetida, Gomm. in Juss. Gen. (1789) p. 209 ; DC. 

 Prodr. iv. p. 575 ; Hook, et Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 194 ; 

 Hance in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 261 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. xi. 

 p. 799. 



Serissa japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 93, t. 17- 



Dysoda fasciculata, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 146. 



China : without locality (Millett ! Beechey !) ; Kiangsu 

 Shanghai (Carles !); Kiangsi : Kiukiaug (Shearer !); Fokien 

 Araoy (Hance !) ; Foemosa : Tamsui (Oldham, 226 !) ; Hupeh 

 Ichang aud immediate neighbourhood (A. Henry !) ; Kwang- 

 tung: Swatow (Perry ty; Luchu Abchipelago (Wright !). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Japan. 



1. Nertera sinensis, HemsL, n. sp. (Plate X.) 



Herba subaquatica, caespitosa,pusilla, glabra, caulibus gracilibus 

 2-4 poll, longis radicantibus. Folia petiolata, crassiuscula, lan- 

 ceolato-oblonga, cum petiolo 4-8 lineas longa, vix acuta, basi 

 cuneata, subtus minutissime lepidota, venis immersis; stipula) 

 lata?, longiuscule acuminata. Flores hermaphroditi, minuti (1-1| 

 lineas diametro), terminales, sessiles, involucrati, involucro parvo 

 eupuliformi bicuspidato ; calycis limbus parvus, truncatus j co- 

 rolla rotata, 4-fida, lobis obtusis ; stamina exserta ; stylus alto 

 bifidus. Bacca carnosa, 4-pyrena; semina perfectanon visa. 



Szechtjek : Mount Omei, 2000 to 3000 feet, growing on stones 

 in water (Faber !). Herb. Kew. 



This is an interesting addition .to the Chinese Flora, and an 

 extension of the area of a genus of remarkable distribution. The 

 present species differs from those previously described in having 

 four pyrenes in the fruit, a condition not unknown in the neigh- 

 bouring and very closely allied genus Copromia. 



