Floristik, Geographie, Systematik etc. 45 



der orographische Aufbau des Kontinents eine bessere Erhaltung 

 und Weiterentwicklung älterer Typen. 



Der specielle Teil beginnt mit einigen Bemerkungen über die 

 Geschichte der Gattung. Darauf bespricht Verf. die Gliederung in 

 Sektionen. Verf. unterscheidet zwei Hauptsektionen Ovniis und 

 Fraxinaster j in der Sektion Ormis begründet Verf. zwei Subsektio- 

 nen, Etiornus und Ornaster ; der Sektion Fraxinaster werden fol- 

 gende Subsektionen untergeordnet: Dipetalae, Pmiciflorae, Sciadan- 

 thtis, Melioides,' Bunielioides. In der darauf folgenden Aufzählung 

 der Arten werden folgende Formen als neu beschrieben : 



Fraxiniis ferniginea Lingelsh. n. sp., F. cilicica Lingelsh. n. sp. 

 F. Paxiana Lingelsh. n. sp., F. pavvifolia (Wenzig) Lingelsh. 

 = F. Biingeana var. parvifolia Wenzig, F. densiflora Lingelsh. n. sp., 

 F. SpaetJiiana Lingelsh. n.sp., F. velutina Lingelsh. n. sp., F. Koeh- 

 neaiia Lingelsh. n. sp., F'. Ssahoana Lingelsh. n. sp., F. niicrantha 

 Lingelsh. n. sp., F. rufescens Lingelsh. n.sp., F. papulosa Lingelsh. 

 n. sp., F. hybrida Lingelsh. n. sp., F. Pringlei Lingelsh. n. sp. 



W. Wangerin (Burg bei Magdeburg). 



Mackenzie, K. K., Notes on Carex III. (Bull. Torr. Bot. Gl. XXXIV. 

 p. 603—7. Dec. 1907.) 



Described, as new or under new names: Carex latehrosa (C. 

 Gayana hyalina Bailey), C. simidata (C. Gayana Boott), C.perglobosa 

 (C. incurva Bailey), and C. agvostoides. Trelease. 



Masters, M. T., On the distribution of the species of Coni 

 fers in the several districts of China, and on the occur- 

 rence of the same species in neighbouring countries. 

 (Journ. Linn. Soc. London. XXXVIII. p. 198-205. 1908.) 



Recent botanical explorers have added largelj^ to the number 

 of Coniferae known to inhabit China, Formosa and Japan, and 

 this summary by the late Dr. M. T. Masters emphasizes the fact 

 that Eastern Asia is the area of the greatest concentration of the 

 genera of this family. From China, including Formosa, eighty- 

 seven species, belonging to twent3'--two genera, are recorded, and 

 fort3'^-two of the species are peculiar. Sixteen genera are represented 

 in Japan by forty-eight species, of which fifteen are endemic. The 

 genera Cryptomeria, Jaiwania, Glyptostrohus, Ginkgo, Cimninghamia, 

 Sciadopitys, Keteleeria and Pseiidolarix are confined, so far as recent 

 species are concerned, to the Chino-Japanese region. Sciadopitys 

 is restricted to Japan. Ginkgo biloba is an interesting survival of 

 over sixty species, found in a fossil State, and it is believed to be 

 wild both in China and Japan. Cryptomeria, Jaiii'ania, Glyptostro- 

 bus. Ginkgo, Ciinningharnia , Sciadopitys and Pseiidolarix are monoty- 

 pic genera. Cephalotaxns is represented b}" six species in the Chino- 

 Japanese region and by one in the Eastern Himalaj^a. 



W. Botting Hemsley. 



Prain, D., Curtis's Botanical Magazine. (Fourth Ser. Vol. IV. 

 NO. 37. January 1908.) 



Tab. 8172: X Philodendron corsinianiim, Makoy, a garden 

 hybrid; tab. 8173: Paeonia Mlokosevitschii, Lomakin, Caucasus; 

 tab. 8174: Viburnum utile, Hemsl., Central China; tab. 8175: 



