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SPICILEGIA FLOE^ SINENSIS: DIAGNOSES OF NEW, 

 AND HABITATS OF EARE OR HITHERTO UN- 

 RECORDED, CHINESE PLANTS. 



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



VII. 



1. Delpliinium {pelpliinastrum) dasyantlium, Kar. & Kir. ? — Ad 

 lacum Ko-ko-nor, a. 1881, leg. W. Mesny. The specimen is 

 indifferent, but I think referable to this species, which is a near 

 ally of the North American D. Menziesii, DC, and remarkable for 

 its pitch-black petals. Mr. Mesny' s plant has the spur double as 

 long as the sepals, not shorter. The great lake of Ko-ko-nor, 

 situated in the very centre of the Chinese Emph-e, is said to be 

 from 200 to 230 miles in circumference. (Przewalsky, Mongolia, 

 ii., 139.) It is no less than 10,500 feet above the sea-level. 



2. PcBonia [Pceon) albijiom, Pall. — Circa Hami, TurkestaniaB 

 chinensis, mvenit cl. W. Mesny, m. Maio 1881. The typical form, 

 with glabrous ovaries. Flowers rose-coloured, as they are also 

 marked on the ticket of a Jehol specimen of the variety tricho- 

 carpa, Bge., given me by the Abbe David. According to Andree's 

 very beautiful "Hand-atlas," Hami is 960 metres (3150 feet) above 

 the sea-level. It is interesting to note that Mr. Mesny gives for 

 this plant, in the remote region where he found it, the name 

 ' Mau-tan-hwa,' the same by which P. Moutan, Linn, is known at 

 Canton. 



3. Bekbekis [Euberberis) stenophylla, sp. nov. — Frutescens 

 ramulis albidis angulatis striate -sulcatis, spinis gracilibus trifidis 

 6-13 lin. longis, foliis 5-8-fasciculatis coriaceis lineari-oblongis 

 mucronatis utrinque o^^acis costa subtus prominula ad utrumque 

 latus spinulis 4-10 brevibus subadpressis denticulatis brevissime 

 petiolatis 1-2 poll, longis 3-5| lin. latis, pedicellis 6-8-aggregatis 

 3-4 lin. longis, baccis (adhuc immaturis) ellipsoideis leviter 

 pruinosis pedicello circ. sequilongis stylo crasso brevi stigmateque 

 discoideo styli longitudinem diametro adaequante coronatis. 



Ad Chung-king, prov. Sz-ch'uan, sestate 1881, legit am. E. H. 

 Parker. (Herb, propr. n. 21774.) 



Closely allied to IJ. WaUicJdana, DC. 



4. Thlaspi [Xomisma) ar venae, Linn. — In derelictis juxta Wu-hu, 

 prov. An-hwei, m. Maio 1881, rarius invenit T. L. Bullock. The 

 only Chinese specimen in my herbarium. 



5. Polijfjala sibirica, Linn. — Juxta Wu-hu, prov. An-hwei, 

 Maio 1881, leg. Bullock. 



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