Tas, 7226. 
LYSIMACHIA PARIDIFORMIS. 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. PrimvuLaces. Tribe Lystmacuiza. 
Genus Lysmmacutia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. ii. p. 635.) 
Lystmacuia (Tridynia) paridiformis ; erecta, sparse puberula, caule basi 
simplici nudo superne verticillatim ramoso, foliis verticillatis sessilibus 
ellipticis yv. obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis subtus glaucescentibus, 
floribus in capitula pedunculata mullibracteata congestis majusculis 
aureis, sepalis subulato-lanceolatis glandulis linearibus notatis, corolla 
campanulata 5-loba, tubo intus pulvereo lobis ovatis obtusis, filamentis 
inequilongis infra medium in tubum pulveream conflnentibus, antheris 
oblongis inclusis, ovariio fere globoso. 
L. paridiformis, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris (1884) p. 433: Forbes 
& Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 55. 
The genus Lysimachia is more numerously represented 
in China than in any other country of the globe, no fewer 
than thirty-five species being enumerated in Forbes and 
Hemsley’s enumeration of the plants of that country, to 
which, no doubt, many more are to be added. Proceeding 
eastward or westward from China the number rapidly de- 
creases to nine in the whole continent of North America, 
fourteen in British India, six in the Oriental region of 
Boissier, and eight in Europe proper. 
L. paridiformis belongs to the section Tridynia as adopted 
by Asa Gray in his Botany of the Northern United States of 
America, and which is characterized by the opposite or 
whorled sessile gland-dotted leaves, yellow corolla marked 
as well as the calyx by glandular streaks, unequal filaments 
monadelphous below, without interposed staminodes, and 
few seeded five-valved capsules. Of described species it ig 
perhaps nearest to L. quadrifolia of the Eastern United 
States, which has leaves in whorls of three to six, and 
foliaceous bracts amongst the flowers, but in that species 
the flowers are very small, and have long axillary filiform 
pedicels. 
L. paridiformis was raised at the Royal Gardens from 
seeds sent by Dr. Henry, from Ichang, in China, on the 
Marcu Ist, 1892. 
