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from Moupine, by a correspondent of Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin, 
and was once more met with at a later date in the same 
neighbourhood by Mr. E. H. Wilson. The seeds, numbered 
2123, received by Mr. de Vilmorin, yielded a number of 
plants on which Mr. Bois has based the account of his 
(. bullata ; a specimen taken from one of these plants was 
communicated to the herbarium at Kew in 1902 by Mr. de 
Vilmorin, who in 1905 presented to the Kew collection a 
living example, now a vigorous bush 6 ft. high, from which 
has been taken the material on which t. 8284 and the descrip- 
tion by Dr. Stapf have been based. With this material 
the specimen (sem. 2123) communicated in i902 exactly 
agrees. But that specimen and the specimens taken from 
the plant now figured also agree with the specimen on 
which the late Mr. Franchet based his original account of 
C. moupinensis, for an opportunity of examining which we 
are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Lecomte, except for the 
fact that the number of flowers and fruits in each corymb is 
much greater in Mr. de Vilmorin’s plant than in that 
gathered by the Abbé David. But the suite of specimens 
vollected near Tachienlu, within a very limited area, by 
Mr. Wilson prove that this character is quite unstable, and 
Dr. Stapf is therefore led to conclude that C. bullata, Bois, 
is only a form, not sufficiently distinct to be considered a 
variety, of C. moupinensis, Franch. There is in the Kew 
collection a specimen presented by Mr, de Vilmorin as 
C. moupinensis, which agrees exactly with the Abbé David’s 
plant, but Dr. Stapf points out that the figure of ©. bullata 
given in Mr. de Vilmorin’s “Fruticetum ” seems to be refer- 
able to the type rather than to the floribunda form here de- 
picted. It has, however, to be remarked that both Bois and 
Schneider lay stress on the shape of the calyx-lobes which 
they describe and figure as rounded in C. bullata, instead of 
triangular as in typical C. moupinensis. But an examina- 
tion of Mr. de Vilmorin’s specimens, both the dried and the 
living, of the form on which C. bullata was founded shows 
that they are just as triangular as in the type of Franchet’s 
species. The indumentum of the receptacle varies from 
“uniformly slightly villous” to ‘slightly villous below, 
nearly glabrous above.” The abundant crop of seeds affords 
a ready means of increase of this plant, and it can also be 
propagated by layers. | 
