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at the first glance, are omitted. Let me illustrate these remarks 
by a few examples. 
Stachys affinis Bge., known for a long time from North-China 
and Japan, is at once distinguished from other species by its 
fleshy root resembling somewhat a turreted shell. Maximo- 
wicz, to whom I sent complete specimens some years ago, was 
the first author to mention the characteristic roots of the plant. 
See his ‘Ad Flore Asi orient. cogn. fragm.” 1879, p. 46. 
Pinus Bungeana, the beautiful white-barked Pine of Peking, 
was first described in 1847 by Zuccarini, and has been cultivated 
in Europe since 1862. The most remarkable feature of this tree 
is its white bark, as if lime-washed. But this characteristic (not 
found on young trees) was for a long time unknown to European 
botanists and gardeners, and is still little known in Europe. 
Koch in his Dendrology III, p. 811 (published 1875) describes 
P. Bungeana, but does not mention the white bark. 
Every foreigner, who visits Peking for the first time, is struck 
by the appearance of a certain large orange-coloured fruit sold in 
the streets. It is especially remarkable for the peculiar shape it 
presents. This fruit, called Shi tz’ by the natives, is flattened 
and shows a more or less deep circular furrow which divides it 
into two stories. This is the Diospyros Schi tse, first described by 
Bunge, fifty years ago. But Bunge says only in describing the 
fruit: bacca maxima depressa, but does not mention the furrow. 
Since Bunge several authors have described J). Schi tse (Carriére, 
Decaisne, Hiern, Naudin), but none of them record the peculiar 
shape of the fruit; and the drawing given under the above name 
in Naudin’s lately published memoir on the genus Diospyres 
shows a rather small globular fruit, like an apple, without the 
characteristic furrow, and represents, I believe, specimens cul- 
tivated in France, from seeds received from Peking. It seems 
however that the passage in Naudin’s deseription of the fruit: 
bacca interdum ad mediam longitudinem quasi constricte coronata, 
alludes to the before-mentioned peculiarity of the cultivated Shi tz’ 
of North-China, which is always aspermous. But the fruit cul- 
tivated in France as Shi tz’ and represented by Nandin, exists — 
Lat “a it is not Homie | in Peking. It is ‘not t the fruit - 
