112 DR. H. F. HANCE'S SUPPLEMENT TO 
somewhat broader at the base and quite simple racemes, I ean de- 
tect no difference ; and the leaves of the Japanese plant are some- 
what variable, and the racemes not always branched. Moreover 
S. lancifolia grows on the White-Cloud Hills above Canton. 
2]. Parechites Bowringii, Hance in Seem. Journ. Bot. vi. 299. 
Gathered by Mr. J. C. Bowring in Hongkong, and not known 
from elsewhere. By an error of the printer in omitting the numeral 
4 before pollicaribus in the diagnosis, I am made to describe the 
follicles as only 1 inch instead of 4 inches long, as is really the 
case. 
*Parechites Thunbergii, A. Gray in Mem. Amer. Acad. vi. 402. (= 
Rhynchospermum jasminoides, Lindl.; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 221.) 
The seeds both of the preceding, as described by me, and of 
this, as observed by Miquel (Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 130) 
and Oliver (Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 166), having a sessile coma, it is 
clear that neither is a Rhynchospermum; besides which, as I 
pointed out when describing my P. adnascens, A. DeCandolle's 
genus Jihynchospermum was published eighteen years later than 
that of Reinwardt, and cannot stand. Nor is this affected by 
the identity of this latter—suspected by Miquel and established 
by Oliver—with Lessing's Leptocoma, over which Reinwardt’s 
genus has five or six years’ priority. 
*Buddleia. 
B. asiatica, Lour., and B. Neemda, Ham., according to the ob- 
servations of Mr. Sampson and myself, preserve in Southern China 
their characters quite clearly, and show no disposition to run 
together. The latter is by far the more common of the two ; and 
its flowers exhale a most powerful scent of honey, which I do not 
think is the case with the other plant. 
22. Ipomoea paniculata, R. Br.; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 414. 
ln woods and thickets, but not very common. Diffused 
throughout the tropics of the whole world. The seeds have 4 
large dense tuft of dirty white wool springing from the ape* 
longer than themselves, and enveloping them in the fruit; but 
the rest of the surface is smooth. In the specimens examined 
by me I have always found the ovary simply 2-celled, without 
spurious septa as in Batatas; but Dr. Wight figures it (Madras 
Journ. of Lit. and Se. v. t. 11) as completely 4-celled. Prof. 
Grisebach (Fl. Br. W. Ind. 469) refers this to the obscure 
I. digitata, L. 
