404 71. COMPOSITE : EUPATOBIACE.3E. 



districts (A. Henry, 40, 362, 1830, 2714 !) ; Kwangtung : North 

 river (Ford I). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Japan and Sacbalin to the mountains of Northern India. 



Sir Joseph Hooker (Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 243) reduces E. 

 Wallichii to E. cannabinum, Linn., and this may be the correct 

 solution of a perplexing question ; but in our case it would have 

 involved the further association of the forms which we have 

 referred to E. Lindleyanum. At the best the present can only 

 be regarded as an approximate sorting. Possibly a more sys- 

 tematic examination of the numerous specimens in herbaria 

 might result in the discovery of more tangible differential cha- 

 racters than we have found ; but we are not alone in our bewil- 

 derment. Frauchet distinguishes E.japonicum from E. Lindley- 

 anum (" chinense ") by the venation of the leaves, those of the 

 latter being more or less distinctly triplinerved ; and this is 

 perhaps the most obvious difference between the two, though 

 there are intermediate states. 



Henriques (Bolet. Soc. Brot. iii. p. 147) records Eupatorium 

 punduanum, Wall, (which is referred to E. cannabinum by 

 Sir J. Hooker), from Kwangtung. 



2. Eupatorium Lindleyanum, DC. Prodr. v. (1836) p. 180 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 172. 



Eupatorium chinense, auctorum plurimorum, anLinn.l; Bretschn. Early 

 Res. p. 101. 



Eupatorium Kirilowii, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat.Mosc. 1837, vii. p. 153; 

 Walp.'Rep. ii. p. 553; Debeaux, Fl. Tchef. p. 72 ; Franchet in M6m. Soc. 

 Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. p. 223. 



Eupatorium subtetragonum, Miq. in Journ. de Bot. NSerl. i. p. 99? 



China : without locality (Fortune, 69 !) ; Chihli : near Peking 

 (Bushelll Bretschneider I Williams 1) ; Shlngkikg: Moukden 

 (Webster I James I); Shantung: Chefoo ( Forbes !) ; Kiangsi : 

 Kiukiang (Shearer !) ; Formosa: Kelung (Fordl); Hupeh : 

 Ichang and immediate neighbourhood (A. Henry, 141, 398, 518, 

 982, 3259!); Kwangtung : Fatshan (Wenyonl); Hongkong 

 (Champion ! Urquhart !) ; Lucnu Archipelago ( Wright !). Mus. 

 Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Mandshuria and Japan. 



Linnaeus's E. chinense was founded upon a specimen collected 

 by Osbeck, which does not exist in the Linnean herbarium, and 

 the description is very imperfect ; therefore it is uncertain 

 whether this be the same. 



