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in cultivation there. From Southern Shensi a new variety of So- 

 j)hora Moorcroftiana Beuth. is described. The typical form belongs 

 to Northern India, and the species is remarkable in the genus for 

 its habit, which approaches that of Carat/cma and Halimodendron. 

 Very few Kubi or roses appear to have been collected. Among the 

 latter are Rosa BanksicB K. Br. from Southern Shensi, a plant with 

 single flowers, but whose spontaneity appears doubtful, and 

 B. xanthina Lindl. from Mongoha. Abbe David says : — " Ce joli 

 rosier aux mille fleurs est excessivement abondant dans toute cette 

 chaine de montagnes : j'en ai trouve une variete curieuse, ou 

 toutes les antheres etaient reunies commo dans les Malvacees." 

 There is a new Crassula from Jehol, this being, as far as we are 

 aware, the first record of this genus from China ; and a sterile 

 specimen of Ilamamelis from Kiukiang so resembles the Japanese 

 plant that M. Franchet refers it also to H. virginiana L. Of Com- 

 positcB 115 species are enumerated, and among the seven new ones 

 is a Petasites from Shensi, the first Chinese record of this genua. 

 The Indian Buddleia ixiniculata Wall, is reported as abundant in 

 Shensi, where Thyrocarpus glochidiatus Maxim., known previously 

 from Kansu, was also found. 



Quercus mongolica Fisch. is reduced to a variety of Q, sessiliflora 

 Salisb., the numerous specimens collected by Abbe David having 

 established this fact beyond doubt to M. Franchet. A new oak 

 from Shensi is described by Abbe David as Q. spinosa, and another 

 specimen from the same country is doubtfully referred to Q. phylli- 

 roioides A. Gray, which was known only from Japan and the 

 Liuchu Islands. Both specimens were sterile, and we should not 

 be surprised to learn that, with further material in hand, both 

 might be found referable to Q. Ilex. From Shensi there are 

 specimens (unfortunately also sterile) referred to the long over- 

 looked Q. chinensis AbeP'' (not Kob. Brown, as the author's name 

 has inadvertently been given). A new Castanopsis is recorded from 

 Kiangsi, making the eighth species peculiar to China. About a 

 dozen Coniferoi are enumerated from Western China, several of 

 which are described as new, while the material for others hardly 

 appears to have been sufficient for specific determination. 



Among the Monocotyledons there is not much that is new, but, 

 as they amount to only seventeen per cent, of the phanerogams, 

 they must be considered as rather poorly represented in the 

 collections. 



The volume itself is published with all the luxury of paper, 

 type and plates to which we have been accustomed in the 

 ' Nouvelles Archives du Museum.' Still, at the risk of seeming 

 ungracious where so much is of the best, we may venture to regret 

 that there is nothing in the way of ordinal or generic names at the 

 tops of the pages, to guide the eye in a rapid search through the 



* One of these specimens, kindly communicated by M. Franchet, agrees as 

 far as it goes with Abel's description and figure. It appears very distinct from 

 Q. sclerophylla Lindl., which I had thought might be identical with Abel's 

 species, by the form and peculiar glaucous under surface of the leaves, as well 

 as by the much larger greyish silky buds. Vide Journ. Bot. 1884, p. 82. 



