a SPICILEGIA FLORJE SINENSIS. 



esse videtur," so that he may have intended a broad species, 

 inchidiug both S. stricta and S. alternijiora. None of the American 

 specimens, moreover, at Kew, or the British Museum, resemble 

 our plant. Asa Gray includes stricta, gJahra and alternijiora under 

 one species (5. stricta), for the var. glabra of which he quotes 

 " S. glabra, Muhl., partly," and gives as the characters, " Culm 

 and leaves longer; spikes 5-12 (2-3 in. long) ; spikelets imbricate — 

 crowded," which shows it to be a form with short s^Dikes and 

 crowded spikelets, thus diverging in the direction of the cyno- 

 suroich's group. 



S. Toiiusendi occurs in considerable abundance on the mud-flats 

 of the western shore of Southampton Water, both above and below 

 Hythe, where it is conspicuous among the alternijiora, with which 

 it grows, by its more compact masses and yellower spikes. We 

 have much pleasure in naming it after Mr. Frederick Townsend, 

 who first distinguished it from S. alternijiora, wJiich species it 

 closely resembles in habit, and under which name we had sent 

 him a specimen. 



Our figure shows S. Townsendi, reduced to one-quarter the 

 natural size. The spikelets of this and the other species are 

 magnified to four times the natural size, the glumes being repre- 

 sented as pulled apart, for convenience of examination. 



SPICILEGIA FLOE^ SINENSIS: DIAGNOSES OF NEW, 

 AND HABITATS OF BARE OB HITHEBTO UN- 

 BECOBDED CHINESE PLANTS. 

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



VI. 



1. Anemone [rulsatilla) chinensis, Bge. — In prov. Kiang-su, 

 prope Chin-kiang, flor. Februario, frf. Aprili 1880, detexit Bullock. 

 Exceedingly fine specimens of this very handsome plant, which 

 had not hitherto, I believe, been found south of the Shan-tung 

 promontory. 



2. Talauma obovata, Benth. & Hook. f. — Circa I-chang, prov. 

 Hu-peh, culta, Apr. 1880, e speciminibus spontaneis, teste am. 

 Wattcrs, a montosis prov. Sz-chu'an allatis. 



3. Berberis {Ma/if>nia) nipaleiisis, Spr. — In monte Koh-loh-shan, 

 ab restivo occasu oppidi Chung-king, prov. Sz-chu'an, Chinee 

 medi.T, alt. circ. 2000 pod. s.m. sterilem tantum invenit W. Mesny, 

 a. 1880. Widely dilfused throughout the mountainous regions of 

 India, but I believe now first detected in China. 



4. Kpimedium (Areranthus) sinense, Siebold. — Juxta urbem 

 I-chang, prov. Hu-peh, m. Apr. 1880, legit T. Watters. The 

 detection of tliis species wild is interesting, as tending to confirm 

 SiebokVs statement (Miq. Ann. mus. hot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 71), that 

 it was introduced into Japan from China. I entkely concm- with 

 Marchand (Adansonia iv. 128j, Baillon (Adans. ii. 268 ; Hist. d. 



