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Fr. not fully matured, determination unsatisfactory. 

 Pon-shan (^llj), Mai., (no. 1310). 



221. Thyrocarpus sp. 



Herb, 3-5 dm., many-stemed, branching, subvilloso-bipid 

 with patent hairs; leaves obovato-oblong, or snbspatulate, 

 acute, narrowed towards base, calloso-denticulate, (7x2 cm.), 

 the lower ones spatulate, petiolate; raceme leaf}^ elongated 

 (fully-developed one not seen) ; flowers pedicellate, extra-axillary, 

 fruiting pedicel 3 times as long as calyx, arcuate; calyx deeply 

 5-parted, slightly enlarged in fruit, segments ovate-lanceolate, 

 hispid, in fruit 3 mm. long and tending to connive ; corolla 

 exceeding calyx, blue, 5-lobed, lobes a little shorter than the 

 tube, sub-orbicular, scales 5, sub rectangular, sub-emarginate; 

 stamens 5, included, filament short, anthers short, subobtuse; 

 ovary deeply 4-lobed, style not very long, somewhat thick, 

 stigma subcapitate; nutlets 4 (not fully matured), compressed, 

 tuberculate, furnished with cup-like appendage on the back, the 

 appendage is double-margined, the internal margin entire, the 

 external toothed, teeth 15 (?), long, submuricate on the top. 



Of a few species of the genus reported from China, my 

 plant differs from Th. fulvescens and glochidiatus. From Th. 

 Sampsoni it differs by having long pedicellate fl. It is perhaps 

 an undescribed sp., but I do not see a fully developed raceme 

 and a matured fruit. 



Tsu-yun-dong {%WM), Apr., (no. 875); Chi-ling (^^), 

 Apr., (nos. 908, 909). 



222. ? Th. Sampsoni Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. 14 ser. 

 XVIII. 225. (Max. in Mel. Biol. VIII. 562 et X. 079; Forb. 

 et Hemsl. I.e. 149). 



Herb, (the lower portion of the stem not seen), densely 

 strigose, cauline leaves sessile, snbspatulate, strigose, acute, 

 narrowed towards base, (5x1 cm.); raceme axillary, 2 dm. long 

 or more, bracteate, fl. axillary, on pedicel hispid and subequal 

 to calyx, fruiting pedicel 4mm. long, recurved; calyx hispid 5 

 parted, segments ovate, oblong, acute; corolla minute, blue, 

 with short tube, 5 lobed, lobes sub- orbicular, throat furnished 



