1941 CHINA. [Composite. 



1. Serissa fcetida. Commerson in Juss. Gen. p. 209. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 575. — 

 Lycium Japonicum. Thunb. Fl. Jap. t. 17. Bot. Mag. t. 361. — Dysoda fasciculata. Lour. 

 Cochin, v. I. p. 181. 



The specimens in the Collection are destitute of flowers and fruit. 



In addition to the above, we possess, from Mr. Vachell, Bigelowia lasiocarpa, Wight and Am. ( Vachell, 

 n. 297,) and a new species of Hedyotis, ( Vachell, n. 105,) closely allied to H. Lawsonia, Wight and Arn. 

 Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. Or. 1. p. 407, and to H. stylosa, Brown, belonging with them to the first section Diplo- 

 phragma; it may be thus named and characterised : H. Vachellii; glaberrima, caule suffruticoso ? erecto, 

 ramis teretibus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis coriaceis inferioribus brevi-petiolatis superiori- 

 bus sessilibus, nervis paucis distantibus curvatis, stipulis persistentibus triangularibus acuminatis coriaceis 

 margine denticulatis, panicula thyrsoidea strictiuscula, calycis limbo cupuliformi 4-dentato, corolla: glabra? 



tubo dentes calycinos plus duplo superante, fauce pilosa This, like its allies, has either the stamens short 



and the style much protruded, or the stamens exserted and the style short : in both cases the latter is fili- 

 form, and the stigma thick and bifid. 



We have also received from Mr. Millett, Hedyotis intermedia, Wight and Arn. (Prod. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. 



1. p. 415), two species of Spermacoce, (one of which is S. articularis, L.) Paderia fcetida, L., Ixora blunda, 

 Iter, and Morinda umbellata, Linn. The specimens of the latter present both oblong, lanceolate, and 

 obovate apiculate leaves on the same branch, tending to prove more strongly the necessity of conjoining with 

 it M. parvifolia, Bartl., and M. tetrandra, Jack, as has been proposed "by Wight and Arn. (1. c. p. 420.) 

 M. Royoc, Lour., not Linn., is undoubtedly the same species. 



Ord. XLVI. COMPOSITE. Juss. 

 1. Borkhausia repens. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 652. — Picris repens. Lour. Cochin, v. 



2. p. 583. 



Under this Order we shall merely here enumerate the species. Some of them we have received from 

 Dr. Wallich, but as Prof. De Candolle is at present engaged with the fifth volume of his " Prodromus," 

 in which all the East Indian Composites are to be described, we have thought it better to omit a specific 

 character of these, than to attempt to frame one which would be quite insufficient to distinguish the plant 

 from its allies, unless we had possessed them likewise. We have been induced to do this the more readily, 

 because the specimens in the Collection of Chinese Composites are little else than fragments. 



1. Spilanthes oleracea. Linn. — Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 444. 



1. Vernonia cinerea. Less, in Linncea, 1829. p. 291. D. C. in Wight Contrib. Bot. Ind. 

 p. 6. cum synon. 



Of this we have, either in the Collection, or from Mr. Millett, three forms ; one, the a. of De Candolle, 

 agreeing with Burm. Th. Zeyl. t. 96. f. 1., and Rumph. herb. Amb. 6. t. 14. f. 1. : another has the leaves 

 much narrower, agreeing in that respect with De Candolle's var. y (1. c.) but differing by being as pubescent 

 as in the common form; a third has the leaves still narrower and more entire, approaching to V. leptophylla, 

 DC. (1. c.) but differing by their being obtuse. 



1. Erigeron multicaule. Wall. List of E. I. Plants, No. 3286. De Cand. 1. c. p. 10. 

 1. Emilia sonchifolia. De Cand. in Wight. Contrib. p. 24.— Cacalia sonchifolia. Linn.— 

 Lour. Cochin, v. 3. p. 593. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 429. 



1. Gynura bulbosa — Cacalia bulbosa. Lour. Cochin, v. 2. p. 592. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 

 v. 3. p. 430. 



