90 DR. H. F. HANCE ON NORTH-CHINA PLANTS. 
plicatio eque mala est et seque a naturali affinitate aliena ac in 
universali systemate ordinum vel familiarum vaga et nullo univer- 
sali principio fundata dismembratio.” So far as they are known 
to me by description or from specimens, tbe present plant does 
not appear nearly allied to any of the species described of late 
years from Manchuria, Japan, or Sachalin; but it may be the 
one alluded to in Maximowicz's ‘Index Flore Pekinensis’ as 
“species ex androgynis.” In general aspect, save for the absence 
ofa terminal d spike, it is not unlike C. pilosa, Scop., or C. vagi- 
nata, ' Tausch. 
54. Carex FABRI, sp. nov. Radice parce fibrosa, foliis radicalibus 
linearibus glabris margine carinaque minute serrulatis lineam latis 
culmo ¿-pedali glabro paulo brevioribus, spicis 5 androgynis basi fœ- 
mineis apice masculis densifloris 4-6 lin. longis exserte pedunculatis 
infima infra caulem medium sita superioribus sensim approximatis, 
bracteis arcte vaginantibus lineari-setaceis margine serrulatis caule 
multo brevioribus, perigyniis lenticulari-ovalibus rufo-castaneis valide 
costato-nervosis preesertim margine et rostro ipsius perigynii dimidiam 
longitudinem adeequante apice oblique bidentato scabris, squamis 
ovatis acutis rufo-castaneis nervo viridulo scabrido percursis vix ad 
rostri basin attingentibus, achznio rotundato-lenticulari stramineo 
levi, stigmatibus duobus.—Juxta Shanghae legit Dr. C. Fabre-Ton- 
nerre. (Exsicc. n. 10238.) 
General Munro (who described my Chinese Cyperacez in 1857, 
for the * Botany of the Voyage of the Herald’) marked this in my 
herbarium as “allied to C. vulgaris, Fr., and C. trinervis, De- 
gland." The former species belongs to the Microrhynche of 
Drejer; the latter falls under his Zrachychlene, as does also the 
Chinese plant, which is evidently a near ally of C. setigera, Don 
(Drejer, Symb. Caricol. t. 8), and especially of the var. minor of 
that species, figured at plate 6 of Dr. Boott’s ‘Illustrations.’ It 
is readily distinguished, however, by its strongly nerved peri- 
gynium, pale, smooth, lenticular nut, and two stigmas; the spikes, 
moreover, are androgynous. 
55. LAPPAGO ALIENA, Spr.—In collibus a Peking occasum versus; 
sestatibus 1865-66 collegit Dr. S. W. Williams. 
All the Peking specimens I have seen certainly belong to this 
species, and not to L. racemosa, Willd., which, however, is recorded 
by Bunge and Maximowiez. 
56. Hetopus VILLOSUS, N. ab E.—In rupestribus agri Pekinensis, 
Aug. 1866, parce vigentem detexit Dr. S. W. Williams. 
