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nervis parum promiuulis 3-3 J- poll, lougis 12-14 liu. latis petiolo 

 5-lineali, pecluuculis axillaribus solitariis 7 lin. lougis apicem 

 versus racemoso-paxicifloris, bi'acteis ?, bracteolis biuis ovatis, calyce 

 sesquilineali margine traucato denticulato pedicello paulo longiore 

 fulto, corollas rubr?e ? subcyliiidracefe 4-5 liu. longfe petalis 6 ad 

 duas tertias lougitudiuis in tubum coalitis lobis oblougis reflexis 

 iutus tomentellis, geuitalibus sub autliesi exsertis, autlieris basi- 

 fixis, stigmate globoso. 



Juxta Pu-koug, prov. Cantoneusis ceutralis, m. Aprili 1882, 

 coU. C. Ford (Herb, propr. n. 22225.) 



Proximo accedit L. subuvibcllato Bl. (Fl. Jav. Lorauth. t. 18) 

 qui, ex b. Miquelii seutentia, L. splmrocarpi Bl. tautum varietas. 



A CONTEIBUTION TOWAEDS A FLOEA OF 



BEECONSHIEE. 



By W. Bowles Barrett, F.L.S. 



There are still two or three Welsh couuties the flora of which 

 is comparatively little known. Amongst such, Breconshire (County 

 42), held, till quite lately, a prominent place, passing almost un- 

 noticed in ' Topographical Botany,' ed. ii. This fact led me to 

 visit the county in August last, and I spent the closing three weeks 

 of that mouth in examining the Breconshire flora. 



I believe that, at the date of my visit, the total number of 

 species actually recorded for the county amounted to 356 only ; for 

 the larger number of these we were indebted to the Eev. Augustin 

 Ley, M.A., who had made several botanical visits there between 

 1873 and 1883, and who has an intimate acquaintance with the 

 botany of the Black Mountain district. Of the 356 species referred 

 to, only 186 appeared in the 2nd edition of ' Topographical 

 Botany,' 140 additional species were recorded by Mr. Ley, in the 

 Eeport of the Botanical Eecord Club for 1881, and 22 were added by 

 Miss Fryer in April last ( Journ.Bot. 1884, p. 124). A further hst was 

 published in December last, in the Eeport of the Botanical Eecord 

 Club for 1883, of 129 new county records of plants observed by Mr. 

 Ley in that year; 105 additional new records for the county, of so- 

 callled " species," and 24 of segregates and varieties, Avere made by 

 me in August last, and are embodied in this paper. Mr. Ley and 

 Mr. H. N. Eidley, F.L.S. , have obligingly communicated the 

 name's of eight additional species, either observed by them, or 

 specimens of which are preserved in the Brit. Mus. Herb. The 

 present census of Breconshire plants is thus brought up to 590 

 species. 



By far the larger portion of the county consists of old red 

 saudstone, which is distinguished from that forming the subsoil of 

 Herefordshire chiefly by its extraordinary elevation. The upper 

 portion of this formation, consisting of sandstone and conglo- 

 merate, occupies the summits of the Vans (Beacons), and other 

 lofty mountains, presenting some of the grandest exhibitiuus of the 



