80 DR. H. F. HANCE ON NORTH-CHINA PLANTS. 
carei Kun-yam-ngam, necnon in montibus Pakwan prope Cantonem, 
legg. Sampson et Hance, Julio 1844-46. 
The Canton specimens are quite similar to Maximowicz’s Na- 
gasaki and Dr. Williams's Peking ones. I have specimens of the 
closely allied .4. pilosa, Ledeb., gathered by Mr. Swinhoe at Ta- 
lien-wan, and by Mr. Conolly at Port May (Vladi Vostock). I do 
not find the leaves of this latter narrower, as stated by F. Schmidt 
(Flor. Sachalin. 127), nor the pubescence on the under surface 
of the leaves thicker, but quite the contrary in each respect: 
A, viscidula, however, is much laxer and more diffuse in habit, 
and has loose interrupted-flowered racemes ; whilst A. pilosa is 
thick-set, and has dense spiciform racemes; the primary veins 
of the leaves also are more conspicuous. 
18. COTYLEDON FIMBRIATA (UMBILICUS, Turcz.). 
Father David sends specimens of this from rocks in the moun- 
tains near Peking and Jehol, with leafy stems 3 inches high, 
and a dense eylindrical spiciform raceme 2 to 5 inches long. 
Other specimens, gathered by Dr. Wells Williams at Kalgan, by 
the Great Wall, are perfectly stemless, and with the inflorescence 
still denser, but distinctly pyramidal in outline, 3 inches long 
and 13 inch across at the base close to the ground., In all these 1 
find the corolla-segments not milk-white, as described by Turc- 
zaninow, but more or less tinged with reddish lilac, and, as well 
as the calyx, distinctly spotted with the same colour. I infer 
from this that Maximowiez's Umbilicas ramosissimus is not spe- 
cifically distinct. The same author's U. erubescens has been 
already reduced by Regel to C. spinosa, L., which thus, like the 
present species, varies both in inflorescence and the colour of 
the flowers. 
19, SEDUM DRYMARIOIDEs, Hance.—In rupibus ditionis Pekinensis, 
comite Bea hygrometrica, R. Br., satis raro crescens, a. 1866, de- 
texit Dr. S. W. Williams. 
This is undoubtedly the same as Mr. Sampson's Canton-pro- 
vince £rouvaille. 'The northern plant is only 8 inches high, the 
leaves smaller and broader, the inflorescence more contracted and 
simpler, and the anthers yellow, not dark purple; but the flowers 
are less advanced, and there is no fruit. Dr. Williams remarked 
the resemblance of the flower to that of Stellaria. 
20. CIRCÆA MOLLIS, S. $ Z.—In silvis ditionis Pekinensis, ™ 
Maio florentem, detexit Rev. A, David, Miss. Apost. 
