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ReEHMANNIA Cuinensis. CHINESE REuH- 
MANNIA. 
ERK KEK KEK KEK EERE ER ER 
Class and Order. 
DipynAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—ScropuHunarinE&. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus. Corolla ringens, tubulo- 
so-ventricosa ; limbo 5-lobo, lobis subequalibus 2 superi- 
oribus reflexis. Stamina didynama. Anthere terminales, 
loculis divergentibus muticis. Stigma bilamellatum. Cap- 
sula ovata, polysperma, unilocularis, bivalvis; valvulis in 
media parte septiferis, marginibus liberis. Semina albu- 
minosa, ovata, membrana spongiosa reticulata involuta. 
Fisch. | 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Reumannia* Chinensis. Fisch. et Meyer, Ind. Sem. Hort. 
Petrop. p. 36. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1960. 
ResmanniA glutinosa. Libosch in Herb. Imp. Petrop. 
GerarpiA glutinosa. Bunge Enum. Plant. Chin. p. 49. 
(not Linn.) 
Dierraus glutinosa. Gaertn. in Nov. Commen. Acad. Imp. 
Petrop. v. 14. p. 544. t. 20. 
This interesting plant is a native of walls and of waste 
and mountainous places about Pekin, where it was collected 
by Dr. Buyer, now Professor of Botany at Kasan, who 
accompanied the Ecclesiastical Russian Mission to China. 
The result of his botanical researches there were given in 
a work entitled “ Enumeratio Plantarum, quas in China 
| _ Boreali 
* Probably named in compliment to a Botanist of the name of REHMANN, 
