454 LETTEE FEOM UE. H. F. HANCE. 



in sect. I. a of Oommelyna. The genus Forrestia^ instead of being 

 regarded as an outlying or questionable member of the order, 

 thus comes exceedingly close to Commelyna itself. 



1. FORRESTIA HOOKERI, HttSSk. h C. 



P^olia subtus glabrata, margine villoso-ciliata. Capsula trigona acutis- 

 sima, ad apicem glabra, quam sepala demum multo longior. 



Hab. in convallibus montium frequens ad 500-3000 ped. alt. ; Khasiya ; 

 Sikkim; Assam. 



2. FoRRESTIA GLABRATA, Hassjc. Z. C, 



Folia subtus glabrata. Capsula ovoidea, ad apicem pilosa, quam sepala 



ad apicem liirta demum multo brevior. 



500-3000 



Sikkim ; Assam, 



[^Flagellaria is plentifu 



gustifolia are, I believe, o 



Species recognoscendce. 



F. indica and F. an- 



There are in the Calc. Herb. Wal- 



nt (the number unfortunately lost) 



which will form a new genus near Anilema (equinoctiale^ Willd. 



The habit and panicle are those of Anilema Tierbaceum ; but the 



psules are 2-celled, with three seeds in each cell, flattened, 

 elongate, and broader upwards, ending in two prominent angles. 



Tradescantia tuherosa^ Eoxb. (Plor. Ind. iii. p. 119, & t. 108 in 

 Coromandel Plants), is a species of Cyanotis, near C. harhata, Don, 

 unltnown to me. I have never visited the Mahanuddee country, 

 whence it is probable Eoxburgh obtained it. 



Extract of a Letter from H. F. Ha^e, Ph.D., to Dr. Hookeb, 



V.P.L.S. 



r 



[Eead February 17, 1870.] 



"Wlmmpoa, October 14, 1869. 



*'Last week I spent a day on the White Cloud (Pakwan) 

 Hills, outside Canton ; and, besides getting a lot of duplicates for 

 distribution, found two good novelties — a very distinct new 

 Archangelica or Angelica (I have not yet had time to make a 

 very careful examination, but am almost sure the former), and 

 a splendid new Pygeum, 70 feet high, with very glossy leaves 

 and acute fruit. T slept at the Upper Monastery, and had a good 

 scramble after plants. Simplocm lancifolia^ S. & Z., was in 

 flower ; Castanopsis chinensis in young fruit ; and I found, for the 

 first time on my way out, Carpesium ahrotanoides ^ a plant I had 

 for years hunted for in vain. Here, as in Japan, it is ruderal. 

 Eriocaulon JieterantkumjE. triuicatuvi, F.Wallichianum^F.auslrale, 



and jE. echinulatum were all plentiful in flower, with Isolohus radi- 



