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above a foot long, thinly tomentose, its lanceolate nearly entire 

 bract-leaves two inches long. Panicle four to five inches long, 

 bipinnate, composed of about seven distichous -oblong spikes with 

 bracts one inch and a half to two inches long. Flower-bract 

 rhomboid, six to seven lines long, minutely mucronate. Calyx 

 with ovary rather shorter than the flower-bract ; sepals deltoid, 

 mucronate, quarter of an inch long. Petals twice as long as the 

 sepals, apparently not scaled at the base. North Brazil, on the 

 banks of the Japura, Martins. 



9. M. PUBESCENS, Ikiker, n. sp. — Leaf with a dilated entire 

 oblong base four to five inches long, two and a half to three inches 

 broad, and an ensiform lamina above a foot long, one inch and a 

 quarter to one inch and a half broad at the base, narrowed 

 gradually to the point, the basal prickles lanceolate, one-twelfth to 

 one-eighth of an inch long, those of the upper half of the leaf 

 very small. Scape a foot long, vfith many large lanceolate bract- 

 leaves, the upper tinted red. Panicle six to twelve inches l(|»g, 

 four to six inches broad, with floccose rachises, the upper branches 

 dense and simple, subtended by small deltoid bracts, the lower 

 branches lax, with forked or panicled spikes with a peduncle and 

 large lanceolate bracts. Spikes distichous, one inch to one and a 

 half inch long, three-quarters of an inch diameter, each flower 

 subtended by an ovate cuspidate striated coriaceous navicular 

 bract three-eighths to one-half of an inch long. Calyx including 

 ovary three-eighths of an inch long ; sepals deltoid-cuspidate one- 

 eighth to one-sixth of an inch long. Petals pale, one-sixth of an 

 inch longer than the calyx. Portobello, Betyiiis! (Herb. Linn.) 

 Nicaragua, RaijjJi Tate, 416 ! Chagres, FencUer, 449 ! Panama, 

 Seemann, 609 ! This very distinct plant, though loiown to 

 Linnaeus and preserved in his herbarium, seems never to have been 

 named nor described. 



{To be continued.) 



A CHINESE FONTANESIA. 

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



Bather less than three years ago Mr. W. B. Hemsley, in some 

 notes on Chinese plants, printed in this journal, alluded to " a 

 deciduous shrub (originally gathered by Fortune) having the 

 general aspect of a Ligustnun, but with axillary flowers very 

 closely resembling those of Funtanesia phillyraoides, the plant in 

 some respects too resembling Chionanthus and Osmanthus,'" * of 

 which he had examined specimens from my friend, Mr. F. B. 

 Forbes, of Shanghae. 



Since his return to China it has been my privilege to enjoy a 

 tolerably constant correspondence on botanical subjects with Mr. 

 Forbes ; and, amongst other plants of novelty or interest, I am 



TrJmcn, ' Journ. Bot.' xiv., 208. 



