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A NEW CHINESE BIGNONIAD. 



C. stellulata, Good. — Exmoor ; near Ilford Bridges ; near Tor- 

 rington. New record. 



C. jmllescens, L. — Meadow near Ilford Bridges. New record. 



C. IcBvigata, Sm. — With the last. New record. 



Agrostis canina, L. — Lyn Woods. New record. 



Festuca rubra, Li., h. arenana. — By coast near Lynton. Queried 

 for N. Devon in Topogr. Bot. 



Aspleniiim marinum, L. — Rocks on the Lynton coast (Rav. FL), 

 in considerable quantity. 



Aspidium angular e, Willd. — Lynton. The only Aspidium that I 

 have seen in N. Devon. 



Chara fxtida, Braun, var. longihracteata. — Braunton Burrows, 

 in sluggish stream flowing into the Taw Estuary. New record. 



A NEW CHINESE BIGNONIAD. 

 By Henry F. Hance, Ph.D., F.L.S., &c. 



Stereospermum (Radermachera) sinicum, sp. nov. Arborea, foliis 

 oppositis cum im^Dari bipinnatis circ. 4-jugis jugis circ. 7 foliolatis 

 foliolis infimis saepe ternis foliolis petiolulatis ovato-lanceolatis 

 integerrinis basi rotundatis apice obtuse acuminatis membranaceis 

 subtus pallidis utrinque miuutissime impresso-punctatis 2 poll, 

 longis 8-10 lin. latis petiolulo lateralium 1 lin. terminalis 6 lin. 

 lono^o, paniculis terminalibus erectis amplis laxis, floribus pedicello 

 3-4 lineali fultis, calyce glandulis albidis minutis cupulatis confer- 

 tissimis oculo tantum armato conspicuis obsito'" ante anthesin 

 clauso ellipsoides pollicari peracta anthesi campanulato leviter 

 10-sulcato 15 lin. longo inclusis lobis 5 triangulatis mucronatis 

 parum inaequalibus trilinealibus, coroll^e glaberrimjB pallide sul- 

 phured tubo sensim infundibulari tripollicari lobis rotundatis 

 crispulis pollicaribus, staminibus 4 didynamis glaberrimis e fauce 

 leviter exsertis cum rudimento quinti filiforme, ovarii glaberrimi 

 placentis in utroque loculo 2 singula 4 series ovulorum gerente, 

 stylo exserto stigmate bilamellato, capsula pendula subtereti pluri- 

 sulcata acuminata circ. 16 poll, longa 4-5 lin. diametro sub lente 

 minutissime albido-glandulosa, semiuibus 2 lin. longis ad utrumque 

 latus ala obtusa 2f lin. longa auctis, cotyledonibus planis. 



In provincia Cantonensi, secus fluvium Lien-chau, m, Januario 

 1879, fructiferum obvenit amico Dri. C. Gerlach. (Herb, propr. 

 n. 20797.) 



Seeds taken from the fruit gathered by Dr. Gerlach were sown 

 in Hong Kong Botanic Garden ; and in July, 1881, when two years 

 and a half old, and about ten feet high, the trees raised from these 

 seeds flowered. From the specimens Mr. Ford, the superintendent, 



* The leaves of S. giganteum would appear to be furnished with similar 

 glands, described by Miquel (Ann. mus. bot. Lu<,'(l.-Bat, i, 100) as " glandules 

 imraersse, peziziforini-excavatee." The foliage of the Chinese tree has merely 

 simple colourless pits, as if pricked b}- a needle. 



