NEW CHINESE PLANTS. 483 
Descriptions of New Chinese Plants, chiefly by SrepHen TroytTE 
Duny, B.A., F.L.S., with an Introductory Note by Cuares 
Henry Wrient, A.L.S. (Contributed by permission of 
the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.) 
[Read 18th June, 1903.] 
A LARGE collection of plants made by Dr. A. Henry in Yunnan, 
and presented by him to Kew in 1900, was (together with 
Chinese plants from other sources) in process of determination 
by Mr. 8. T. Dunn, F.L.S., when he was appointed Superintendent 
of the Botanic and Afforestation Department, Hongkong. The 
following paper contains Mr. Dunn’s descriptions of the species 
in these collections which he regarded as new; but as some of 
them were originally drawn up with a view to publication else- 
where, they have been amended so far as was necessary to make 
them conform to one plan. It had been intended that Mr. W. 
Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., should write an introduction to this 
paper, but the pressure of other work has prevented this intention 
being realized. 
Some of the species call for special mention. Of Magnolia 
Henryi, Dunn, only a single tree was seen, and that in such bad 
condition as to suggest the idea that it was a sole survivor. 
Bombax tenebrosum, Dunn, was also only met with as a solitary 
tree, but Dr. Henry was able, by sending back collectors at 
various seasons, to obtain specimens of both flowers and fruit. 
Its white petals are 43 in. long by nearly 1 in. broad, and are 
densely pubescent on the back. 
A fourth species is added to Euchresta, Benn. Of those 
previously known, one extends from Khasia, Java, and the 
Philippines to Formosa and the Luchu Archipelago, while the 
others are confined to J apan and China respectively. 
Two new species of Cryptoteniopsis are here described, bring- 
ing the number now known up to nine. This genus (originally 
proposed by Franchet as a subgenus of Carwm) is one of the few 
Umbelliferz in which the secondary branching of the inflorescence 
is cymose instead of umbellate. A similar structure occurs in 
Pternopetalum, Franch., which differs in having the fruit much 
laterally compressed and winged. 
In the Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, xxiii. (1886-88) 
pp. 449-458, thirty-five species of Senecio are recorded from 
