226 DESCRIPTION OF SOME XEW PHANEEOGAMIA. 



This plant appears to have been collected by Fortune (No. 10) : 

 but the specimens at Kew are destitute of root, without which it is 

 impossible to place a plant belonging to this genus in its right 

 section. 



CorydaJis gracilipes, sp. n. Foliis (caulinis) subsessilibus biternatim 

 sectis segmentis late ovatis inoequaliter trilobatis obtusis, bracteis ob- 

 longis acutis undulatis pedicello triplo minoribus, pedicellis ascenden- 

 tibus, calcare apice parum currato obtuso lamina duplo breviore, 

 capsulis . . .— Caulis erectus, glaber. Folia glabra. Pedicelli 

 graciles, tenuiter pubescentes. 



The section to which this species belongs is uncertain, as the 

 specimens are rootless; the upper cauline leaves only are present. 

 Fortune's No. 2 should perhaps be referred here, though it differs in 

 its shorter pedicels and broader and longer bracts, which are at least as 

 long as, and sometimes longer than, their pedicels. 



Viola, sp. nov. ? This specimen is unfortunately without either 

 flowers or fruit. The leaves are ovate acuminate, broadly and deeply 

 cordate at base, and regularly inciso-dentate at the margin ; they are 

 nearly 4 in. long and 2^-3 in. at their broadest part, and supported on 

 petioles which are 9 or 10 in. in length. It appears to be new. 



Berchemia congesta, sp. n. Eamulis divaricatis inermibus ultimis 

 puberulis, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongo-ovatis acuminatis basi 

 angustatis serrulatis sparse puberulis, florum fasciculis in foliorum 

 axillis congestis, drupis oblongis exsuccis pedicellum paulo excedenti- 

 bus. — Frutex. Folia 1^2 unc. longa, J-1 unc. lata. Sepala ovata 

 obtusa integra. Petala deltoideo-subrotundata, crenulata. Drupa 4 

 lin. longa, leviter striata. 



Flowers described from a Shanghai specimen collected by Dr. 

 Maingay (No. 707) whose No. 698 is also to be referred here. 



Vitis, sp. There is a Vine in the collection clothed with a whitish 

 tomentum, having entire shortly-petioled ovate-cordate acute leaves 

 which, when full-grown, are about 1^ in. long, and nearly as broad. It 

 is probably a new species ; there is neither flower nor fruit. 



Ruhift (Suffruticosi Corchorifolii) Lamhertianus, Ser. in DC. Prod, 

 ii, p. 567. Suffrutex ramis erectis subteretibus hirtis ramulis ultimis 

 piloso-hirtis, aculeis sparsis recurvis parvis debilibus, foliis longe 

 petiolatis ovatis breviter acuminatis basi cordatis utrinque obscure 

 3-4 lobulatis crebre apiculato-crenatis supra (prsecipue ad nervos) 

 hispidulis subtus hirsutis, floribus ad apicem ramulorum paniculatis, 

 pedunculis piloso-hirtis, calycis lobis triangulari-ovatis acuminatis 

 pubescentibus margins parum canescentibus, petalis elliptico-ovatis 

 obtusis basi cuneatis sepalis sequilongis, fructu globoso. — Petioli 8-20 

 lin. longi, piloso-hirti. Folia 1^-3 unc. longa. Bracteae minutae, 

 setaccce. Flores 3-4 lin. diara. Calyx vix 3 lin. longus. Petala 

 glabra. 



The above is a re-casting of the very meagre description given by 

 De Candolle ; the Kiukiang specimen has been compared with those 

 in the British Museum, and though these latter are labelled with a 

 query there seems no reason to doubt that they are really forms of 

 the It. Lamhertiamis of the Prodromus. The plant is unknown to 

 M. Maximowicz. 



Eubus (Suffruticosi Pinnatifolii) innominatiifi, sp. n. Ramulis 



