Tas. 7961. 
LYSIMACHIA Henry. 
; | a4 Native of Western China. 
ka Nat, Ord. Prrwutacea.—Tribe LystmacniE&, 
_ Genus Lysimacuta, Linn, ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 635.) 
Lysimacuta Henryi; herba perennis, robusta, subcarnosa, repens, radicans, 
' - plus minusve ferrugineo-pubescens, vel villosa, culta fere glabra vel cito 
labrescens, caulibus elongatis teretibus floriferis adscendentibus interno- 
diis nunc folia excedentibus nunc brevissimis, foliis plerumque oppositis 
petiolatis lanceolatis vel ovatis cum petiolo 1-4 poll. longis acutis basi 
cuneatis vel interdum rotundatis integris venis :mmersis inconspicuis, 
floribus luteis circiter 1} poll. diametro in axillis folioram superioruam 
confertorum solitariis vel interdum subumbellatis pedicellatis, pedicellis 
plerumque vix semipollicaribus sed interdum elongatis, calycis lobis fere 
liberis lineari-lanceolatis acutissimis 3-4 lin. longis, corolla rotate lobis 
obovato-oLlongis, staminibus coroll# lobis dimidio brevioribus omnibus 
inequilongis filamentis fere ad medium connatis papillosisqne supra 
medium filiformibus, ovario villoso stylo capitato stamina vix excedente. 
L. Henryi, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol, xxvi, p. 52. W. Irving in 
_ The Garden, vol. |xiv. (1903), p. 269, cum habitus figura. W. W.in Gard. 
Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 187. : 
In the letterpress accompanying the figure of Lysi- 
machia crispidens, Hemsl. (tab. 7919) some particulars 
are given of the composition and distribution of the genus. 
L. Henryi bids fair to become as great a favourite as the 
“Creeping Jenny,” L. Nummularia, L., and it is an 
equally vigorous grower, of more robust habit, though 
probably not so hardy. The flowers,.too, are of a richer 
yellow. 
It was originally collected by Dr. A. Henry near Ichang, 
in the Province of Hupeh, in 1685, and two years later 
Kew received specimens from the Rev. H. Faber, collected 
in the Province of Szechuen. Dr. Henry found it at 
altitudes of 6,000 to 8,000 ft. More recently Mr. EK. H. - 
Wilson, collector for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, sent 
seeds to that firm, in whose nurseries at Coombe Wood 
it was raised last year. A small piece sent to Kew for 
determination was divided and planted in the herbaceous 
ground and rock-garden, where it soon formed large 
patches, and flowered profusely and continuously during 
June Ist, 1904. ; 
