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revolutis, stipulis seepius obsoletis, fructu spherico capsulari sepalis 
pectinato-pinnatifidis duplo fere breviore, seminibus angulatis com- 
pressiusculis curvulis testa suberoso-incrassata minute serobiculata, 
embryone ob seminis formam curvulo.—Ad vias prope Cha-tau, in 
siccis lapidosis, terre adpressum, Sept. 1867, legit Dr. S. W. Williams. 
This genus is placed by Bunge, in the ‘ Reliquit Lehman- 
nian’), and, following him, by Boissier (in Zygophyllacee rather 
than in Rutacee, where it is left without any remark by Ben- 
tham and Hooker, and since by Le Maout and Decaisne. In 
the present species there are evident signs of glandular dots 
on the leaves, and the stipules are usually suppressed; and 
though the embryo would be quite straight were it not for the 
curvature of the seed, the copious albumen and absence of sta- 
minal scales are in favour its Rutaceous position. By its solitary 
flowers it differs from all the other members of the tribe Rutex, 
and may perhaps be regarded as an osculant genus. 
6. Evonymus BUNGEANUS, Mazim. Capsula flavida 4-loba levi 
glabra apice depresso-complanata acutangula aptera valvis obcorda- 
tis, arillo carnoso miniato totum semen obvolvente. 
Father David, from whom, as well as Dr. Bretschneider, I 
have received this, speaks of it as an “arbre médiocre." 
7. VITIS ACONITIFOLIA (AMPELOPSIS, Bge.). 
According to Dr. Wells Williams, the fruit of this vine, which 
seems not uncommon in the hills around Peking, ripens at the 
approach of frost, and is very sweet and juicy. 
8. VITIS FICIFOLIA, Bge.—E provincia Fokien, circa Amoy, a. 1858, 
misit C. de Grijs: in insula Formosa, prope Tam-sui, Apr. 1864, in- 
venit def. R. Oldham. 
Though cordially agreeing with Professors Asa Gray and 
Miquel in reducing V. Thunbergii, S. & Z., to V. Labrusca, L., 
lam disposed to think they go too far in referring the present 
plant, which bas much smaller leaves and a different facies, to 
that species. Regel considers it a form of V. vinifera, L. 
9. PIsTACIA CHINENSIS, Bge. Arbor 50-60-pedalis, paniculis fructi- 
geris folio duplo brevioribus strictis angulatis ramis divaricatis bre- 
vibus, drupis compressis oblique gibbosis apice obtusissimis pedi- 
cellum duplo superantibus.—In montibus ditionis Pekinensis rarius 
invenit am. Dr. S. W. Williams, m. Aug. 1867. 
This is nearest P. palestina, Bois., which it resembles in the 
size and shape of its fruit, and its paripinnate leaves, by which 
