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caulinis minutis ovatis albo-scariosis, spiculis 3-floris secus ramulos 

 iu paniculas subsecimdas amplas laxiusciilas fastigiatim corymbosas 

 dispositis, bracteis oblique truncatis membranaceis albis medio 

 brunneis, calycis tenerrime membranacei albi lineam longi tubo 

 lineis 5 brunueis notato, limbi plicati dentibiis ovatis acutiusculis, 

 coroll^e bilinealis tubo flavido lobis violaceis rotundatis. 



Ad lacum Ko-ko-nor, a. 1881, leg. W. Mesny. (Herb, propr. n. 

 22015). 



A very distinct species, much more robust than S. tenella, 

 Turcz. ! or S. leptoloba, Eegel ! Though the flowers are so small, 

 their great abundance, and the striking contrast between the white 

 shining bracts and calyx and the violet corolla (which as far as I 

 can make out is gamopetalous), render it one of the loveliest 

 species known to me. 



43. Statice [Limonium, Plathymenium , chrysanthcB) aiirea, Linn. — 

 In Ko-ko-nor, a. 1881, leg. W. Mesny. A very beautiful species, 

 more delicate than S. Schrenckiana, Fisch. & Mey. ! and with bright 

 lemon-yellow flowers. 



In the ' Prodromus,' M. Boissier lays stress on some of the 

 sections into which he has divided this genus having the corolla 

 after flowering " corculata." I have been unable to discover what 

 meaning M. Boissier attaches to this word, which is not classical 

 (not to be found in Forcellini, Ainsworth, Smith or Lewis & Short), 

 nor apparently belonging to the Lower Latinity (it is absent from 

 Maigne d'Arnis' ' Lexicon manuale,' a comiDendium based on 

 Ducange's great work, and also from Quicherat's ' Addenda Lexicis 

 latinis'); whilst no such botanical term is mentioned in the 

 glossaries in Lindley's ' Introduction ' or ' Elements,' in Germain 

 de St. Pierre's ' Dictionnaire,' or in the still more ambitious one 

 of Baillon. 



44. Lysimachia clethroicles, Duby. — In prov. Sz-ch'uan, a. 1881, 

 leg. cl. E. H. Parker. An addition to the flora of China Proper. 

 The specimen agrees entirely with Manchurian ones. 



45. Glaux maritima, Linn. — Circa m'bem Ha-mi, TurkestaniaB 

 chinensis, m. Maio 1881, leg. W. Mesny. 



46. LiGusTKUM MOLLicuLUM, sp. nov. — Kamis teretibus puben- 

 tibus, ramulis annotinis subtetragonis molliter cinereo-tomentosis, 

 foliis flaccidis oblongis basi obtusis apice acutis mucronatis supra 

 sparsim pilosulis subtus prscipue secus nervos tomentosis 3^ poll, 

 longis 11 poll, latis petiolo IJ lineali tomentoso, inflorescentias 

 spiciformis 1| poU. longae cymulis geminatis 3-15 floris peduncu- 

 latis bracteis liuearibus setaceo-acuminatis flores adaequantibus 

 stipatis, calycibus cyathiformibus breviter 4-denticulatis tomentosis, 

 corollae extus tomentosse intus glaberrim* tubo infundibular! 

 calycem 4-plo superante laciniis oblongis erectis, staminibus paulo 

 infra faucem insertis antheris ovatis apiculatis lacinias ad^quan- 

 tibus, stylo mediam coroUam adtingente. 



Juxta urbem Wu-hu, prov. An-hwei, Maio 1881, leg. T. L. 

 Bullock. (Herb, propr. n. 22003.) 



This is undoubtedly quite distinct from any of the species 

 described in the carefully executed monograph of Professor Decaisne 



