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precisely similar to that of candied citron peel. By the prominent calyx- 

 teeth and the fistular juga (which character, however, disappears in the 

 ripe fruit) this ag-rees with the species separated by Hoffmann under the 

 name of Odericum ; by its infrajugal vittse it, however, differs, I believe, 

 from any Angelica hitherto described. In young fruit the vittse are made 

 out with tlie greatest difficulty, but in mature ones, after maceration, they 

 are very conspicuous. I think the increase in the number of these organs 

 in the Chinese plant, taken in connection with the fact, as stated by Mr. 

 Bentham (Gen. Plant, i. 917), that in some species of Jrchangelica they 

 cohere with the fruit rather than the seed, points to the advisableness of 

 suppressing the latter genus. 



The discovery of this plant is particularly interesting, as affording an- 

 other instance of the extension of northern Asiatic forms to South China, 

 to which I have already on several occasions directed the attention of 

 botanists. The genus Angelica (as comprehensively, and I believe natu- 

 rally, characterized by Mr. Bentham) is, unless I err, entirely absent from 

 southern Asia ; whilst, as compared with other umbelliferous genera, it is 

 richly represented on the north-eastern Asiatic seaboard. Excluding 

 Archangelica (which, as mentioned above, I should prefer to unite), Maxi- 

 mowicz and Kegel enumerate six species from Russian Manchuria, and 

 the former author two — probably new ones — from the neighbourhood of 

 Peking; whilst the island of Sachalin, not yet thoroughly explored, has, 

 according to F. Schmidt, four; not of course all different from those of 

 the mainland. Miquel records only three from Japan, but there can be 

 little doubt this number will be augmented ; though, as Euprecht, in his 

 ' Revision der Umbelliferen aus Kamtschatka,' counts but two species 

 from those regions ; Regel and Tiling two from Ayan in eastern Siberia ; 

 and Trautvetter and Meyer only one from Ochotsk ; w^e can scarcely per- 

 haps expect additions from the northern parts of the empire. 



5. Abelia adenotricha, n. sp. ; frutescens, ramis oppositis, virgatis tere- 

 tibus basi perularum squamis persistentibus brunneis scariosis auctis 

 junioribus pilis e tuberculo ortis apice capitato-glandulosis densiuscule 

 hirtis vetustioribus cum caule eorumdem basibus asperatis cortice pallide 

 brunneo, foliis ovatis acutis integerrimis 1-2 poll, longis, 6-13 lin. latis, 

 petiolo bilineali suffultis utrinque sed praecipue subtus dense adpresse 

 strigoso-hirtis subtus tenuiter elevato-reticulatis, pedunculis ad ramulorum 

 furcaturas ortis solitariis dense glanduloso-pilosis \-\\ poll, longis apice 

 bracteis binis foliaceis lanceolatis glanduloso-pilosis totidem ffores fulci- 

 entibus munitis, floribus in peduuculo sessilibus, corolla ? (delapsa), 

 acha^niis bracteas subsequantibus oblougis pilis capitatis dense obsitis 

 circ. 4 lin. longis calycis 4-partiti laciniis oblongis acutiusculis uninerviis 

 glanduloso-pilosis inter se insequalibus ipso achsenio triplo brevioribus 

 coronatis. 



In vicinitate Jehol specimina fructifera m. Maio invenit rev. Armandus 

 David. (Exsicc. n. 14715.) 



A species very distinct by its hairy foliage, glandular pubescence, long 

 naked peduncles, and small fruiting-calyx, apparently coming nearest my 

 A. Davidd. It is a matter for regret that the corolla of neither of these 

 two, nor of A. Hanceana, Mart., discovered by me on the mainland oppo- 

 site Amoy, should be yet known. The present plant, in the herbarium, 

 has considerable general resemblance to Lonicera Maximoiviczii, Rupr. or 

 L. chrysautha, Turcz. 



