36 SPICILEGIA FLOR.E SINENSIS. 



year, and shows no signs of dying. If the Welsh plants prove 

 to be biennial, it will be a very curious fact, for Mr. Backhouse's 

 Scottish plant is perennial. 



This plant flowers in May and June in Wales, as I learn from 

 Mr. Griffith ; and the flowers are all over before the commencement 

 of July. 



P.S. (Jan. 1882). — A seedling jDlant brought from Wales in 

 Aug. 1880, which had only the long- stalked leaves, produced the 

 large short- stalked radical leaves in the following spring, and 

 retained them through the summer. They have now disappeared, 

 and fine large buds, clothed with dense white wool, remain. This 

 has also happened with seedhngs raised at Cambridge in 1881, 

 which now have only similar buds. It will be of much interest to 

 see what will happen to these plants in 1882. 



Desceiption of Plate 2"26. — Senecio spathulcefolius, DC. — Fig. 1. Head of 

 infioresoence (nat. size), from Davies' specimen in Herb. Mus. Brit. 2. Seedling 

 (reduced one-halt). 3. Eadical leaves of mature plant (reduced one-half). 

 4. Full-grown specimen (three-tenths nat. size). 5. Leaf of seedling grown 

 in garden from wild seed (nat. size;. 2 — 5 from Prof. Babington's Herbarium. 



SPICILEGIA FLOR^ SINENSIS: DIAGNOSES OF NEW, 

 AND HABITATS OF EAEE OR HITHERTO UN- 

 RECORDED CHINESE PLANTS. 

 By H. F. Hance, Ph.D., Memb. Acad. Nat. Cur., &c. &c. 

 (Concluded from p. 2.) 



30. Lysimachia [Ephemeruui) harystachijs, Bunge. — In collinis 

 prope Kiang-su, circ. Chin-kiang, m. Maio 1880, leg. T. L. Bullock. 

 This had not hitherto been recorded south of the Shan-tung ijro- 

 montory, which is upwards of five degrees to the north of the 

 present station. 



31. Lysimachia {Nummularia) Christinm, Hance. — Juxta I-chang, 

 prov. Hu-peh, Apr. 1879, leg. T. Watters ; ckca Chung-king, i^rov. 

 Sz-chu'an, vere 1881, invenit E. H. Parker. Only previously 

 gathered in the neighbourhood of Ning-po. 



32. Styrax Fortuni, niihi — (Cyrta agrestis, Miers, Contrib. Bot. 

 i. 181 vix Lour.) — In collibus circa Chin-kiang, prov. Kiang-su, m. 

 Maio 1880, coll. Bullock. The leaves are elliptic-oblong, and 

 abruptly acuminated, rather than elliptic, as described by Miers ; 

 but the plant agrees so very well with his character that I have 

 no doubt it is identical with Fortune's, of which I have seen no 

 authentic specimen. The flowers are generally 2-3 fasciculate 

 along the leafy raceme-rachis, and the corolla-segments are but 

 very slightly imbricate. I think it very improbable that Loureiro's 

 Cyrta ayrestis, which Miers had not seen, is identical with this 

 plant ; it is described as having ovate leaves. I agree with Prof. 



