130 SERTULUM CIIIXENSE SEXTUM : 



thickness of its peridiiira, and the smoothness of its l^ark, but espccia lly 

 by the stellate mode of the dehiscence of the peridiura. 



Fries gives Southern Europe and Carolina as its localities ; to these 

 may be added La Calle, in Algeria, as Montagne informs us in the ' Plore 

 d'Algerie,' and Australia, Drummond, n. 168. A comparison of the 

 spores of the British plant with those of specimens from Carolina exhibits 

 scarcely any difference, both being rough and varying from O'OOOS to 

 0"0005 inch diameter. 



Explanation of Plate CXVI. — Fig. 1, 2, 3. Scleroderma Geaster, Fr., from 

 specimens collected by Dr. Bull, near Hereford, in Oct. 1870. Fig. 4. Spores 

 mamified 700 diameters. 



SERTULUM CIIINENSE SEXTUM: A SIXTH DECADE OF 

 NEW CHINESE PLANTS. 



By H. F. Hance, Ph.D., etc. 



1. Lathy rus (Orobus) Davidii, n. sp. ; glaberrimus, caule angulato, 

 foliis 8-jugis petiolo apice cirrhifero foliolis membranaceis subglaucescen- 

 tibus reticulato-venosis subrhombeo-ellipticis utrinque obtusis setaceo- 

 apiculatis, stipulis foliolis duplo brevioribtis ac angustioribus semisagit- 

 tatis auriculis deorsum productis vix divaricatis obtusiusculis integerrimis 

 vel subtindulatis, pedtinculis 12-15-floris folia vix ajquantibus, calycis 

 dentibus superioribus brevibus triangulatis .3 iuferioribus longioribus 

 lineari-setaceis, corolla (teste Davidio) albida, leguminibus immaturis 

 glaberrimis anguste linearibus 3|-pollicaribus. 



In silvis montosis ditionis Pekinensis, m. Julio florentem, legit rev. pat. 

 Arraandus David. (Exsicc. n. 14880.) 



This species, of which the absence of ripe fruit on my specimen pre- 

 cludes my giving a fuller diagnosis, is allied to L. maritiiii/ts. Big., and 

 L. pisi/ormls, L., and is doubtless the unnamed plant alluded to in 

 Maximowicz's ' Index Floras Pekinensis.' In referring it to the section 

 Orobus, I understand that group as limited by Alex. Braun and other 

 recent writers. 



2. Abriis mollis, n. sp. ; longe diffusa atque volubilis, caulibus ramisque 

 pilosis, foliis 11-16-jugis petiolis fulvo-villosis foliolis tenuibus lineari- 

 oblongis supremis plerumque obovatis truncato-obtusis setaceo-apiculatis 

 9-12 lin. longis 3-4 lin. latis venis inconspictiis supra pubenti-pilosis 

 subtus dense villosis, racemis fulvido-villosis folium dimidium circiter 

 fequantibus, floribus 3-linealibus roseo-purpureis secus rachin in nodis 

 brevissimis 4-8 glomeratis, calyce dense incano, vexilli ungue limbo 

 triplo breviore vagin?e staminese adhserente, leguminibus If poll, longis 

 pilosis oblongis compressis apiculatis circ. 8-spermis, seminibus ovoideis 

 compressis fusco-brunneis nitidis strophiola parva apice in corniculum 

 protracta annuliformi hilum perforatum funiculum rigidum legumini 

 adhserentem excipiens cingente. 



In frutectis saxosis ad Shek-mtin, juxta Cantonem, d. 8 Augusti 1869, 

 primus detexit filius mens Alfredus ; in silvula ad ccenobium Sheung- 

 king-tdi, infra verticem montium Pak-wan, m. Septembri ejusdem anni 

 iterum invenit clarus Sampson. (Exsicc. n. 15806.) 



This species, which, like A. cantoniensis, has carunculate seeds, is in the 



