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^VVa^eZTo!rTl ''" '"f" """" "''" ""' ^^■^^'^^'"'^ '''''^»- ' ""'- --'1 "P -th them, and 
cTnd Prl f , • " MT' ''"*" ' "™™* '^^'^■'''' ^•'^^*''- tl^-" «P-™»^ belong to Z. lon,!f.Ua. De 
Cand. Prodr. vol. vu. p. 135. n. 18, said by Bentham to be nearly allied, as that species is unknown to me. 
the rui?; nf "",Tr ''T.''"""' ""'''■' ""' ^''"''- ^'■°''^- ™'' ™- P- 1*5- -• 2 + - ^o-J amongst 
the ruins of an old house (Champion, teste el. Benth.). 
testeTBe^'nthr'"" '"'""' """*''■ " '^°"'' '"™- """• ™' ' '^ ''' + ■ "™^'™^ ("'"^'^' 
snecie^bntTl! *\° '^'"'"T' *'" ^P^"" ''™''"'''^' "^ " "ehoraceous plant, which may prove to be this 
species, but the achfema are too young to admit of critical examination. 
335. Bbachyeamphus ramosi^simm, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 489, et in 
Hook. Journ. Bot. and Kew Misc. vol. iv. p. 337.-mprs. Rep. Bot. Syst. vol. ii. p. mS.-Du!„j.a 
raMos^ss^ma, Hance in Wlrps. Ann. Bot. Syst. vol. ii. p. 1028. Hongkong (Hinds, teste el. Benth. ; 
Hance! Seemann!). • - o o \ , , 
Mr. Bentham is somewhat m doubt whether this plant really belongs to BracJ^^r-a.phu,, De Caud., 
Bad apparently with good reason, considering that most of the genera of Zactuce^ are not strictly enough 
circum.cnbod, and pass one into the other. Moreover I fully agree with him that our plant ha. not the 
slightest relation to the genus Dubytea, to which it is referred by Hance. 
336. SoxcHus oleraceus, Linn., De Cand. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 185. n. 6+. In waste places 
(Hmds, teste el. Benth.) . 
337. YouxGiA runciuaia, De Cand. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 192. n. S.—Yonnffia, sp., allied to K ?iapi. 
folia, De Cand., cf. Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. and Kew Misc. vol. iv. p. 237. n. 36. Hongkoni? 
(Champion, teste cl. Benth. j Hance !). 
This plant may be the same species coUected by Moyen in China, and described by Walpers in tbe 
Nov, Act. Acad. C^s. Leop. Carol, vol. xix. suppl. 1, as Toungia runcinata, and also the same gathered by 
Champion m Hongkong, supposed by Mr. Bentham to be a mere variety of T. nofifoUa, De Cand Both 
species have indeed many cliaractcrs in common, but in our specimens the lobes of the leaves are almost 
triangular and acute, as in Z: runcinata, and not oblong and obtuse sinuate, as in T. ^lapifoUa. The acha;nia 
however, almost ripe in our specimens, are light brown, strongly ribbed, and much attenuated at their apes. 
Zinnia elegans, Jacq., Coreojpsis tinctoria, Nutt., Tagetes erecta, Liuu., and Gaillardia pulchella, Foug., 
are cultivated in the gardens. 
STYLIDIEiE. 
338. Stylidium uUginosum, Swartz.— D^ Cand. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 336.— S. Sinictm, Hance in 
Wlprs. Ann. vol. ii. p. 1030 ! Moist situations (Champion ! Hance !). 
LOBELIACE^. 
339. PiDDixGTONiA nummulaHa, A. De Cand. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 341. Common in ricefields 
(Champion!). 
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