SPICILEGIA FLOR^ SINENSIS. 13 



1857, legit Gregory. Ja}3an is alone mentioned as the native 

 country in the ' Genera ;' but I sent one of Gregory's specimens to 

 Kew, when fti-st detected. 



38. Mitrasacme indica, Wight. Ad Swatow, in scaturiginosis, 

 duo tantum exemplaria pusilla invenit Sampson, Junio, 1866. 

 Cu'ca Amoy ipse legi, Oct. 1857. Found hitherto only in the 

 Indian peninsula, Ceylon and Australia. 



39. Calotropis gi/jantea, E. Br. In parva insula Nau chau, juxta 

 Hainan, m. Julio, 1870, leg. Sampson. 



40. Lithospermum Zollvuijeri, A. DC. In monte Feng wang shau, 

 circ. 35 mill. pass, ab m-be Shanghae, aestate 1876, coll. J. P. 

 Martin. Only previously gathered in Japan. Maximowicz, who 

 no doubt rightly reduces to this L. japonicum, A. Gray, refers it to 

 the section Maryarospermum (' Mel. Biolog. Acad. Petersb.' viii. 542), 

 next L. purpureo-ccerulemn, L. Lithodora is not coextensive with 

 this, as stated by Willkomm (' Prodi*. Fl. Hispan.' ii. 499) and 

 Bentham and Hooker (' Gen. Plant.' ii. 860) ; for Eeichenbach 

 includes in his section L. purpureo-cceruleum, which Grisebach 

 (' Spicil. Fl. KumeL' ii. 85) expressly excludes, and I think he and 

 Boissier (' Fl. Orient.' iv. 218) right in associatmg this species with 

 L. officinale. As remarked by Bentham, L. apidum, Yahl., and its 

 ally L. microspermum, Boiss. (= L. Wehhii, Coss. & DPi.) form a 

 good section of themselves, for which Columna's name Apula might 

 well be restored. 



41. Ipomcea (FAiipomcea) Turpethum, E. Br. Prope Whampoa, 

 ipse legi, d. 16 Februarii, 1871 ; secus amnem Lien chan, Oct. 

 1876 ; coll. Eev. J. C. Nevm. 



42. Ip>omcea (Pharbitisj congesta, E. Br. In msula Prata, maris 

 chinensis, m. April, 1858, leg. C. Wilford. The peduncles are 

 1 -flowered, and the corolla rather more than three mches in length 

 m my specimens. 



43. Pedicidaris longiflora, Eudolphi. In m. Siao-uri-tai-shan, 

 Julio 1876, coll. W. Hancock. This curious and very distmct 

 species had only hitherto been found in Baikal, Siberia. 



44. Thimhergia fragram, Eoxb. Serpens inter gramina secus 

 viam a portu Hoihan ad metropolin Kieng-chan-fii ins. Hainan 

 ducentem, d. 18, Novembris, 1866, coll. Sampson et Hance. 



45. Dmlalacanthus nercosus, T. And. In umbrosis riparum 

 scopulosarum praecipitum ad fauces Shiuhing, secus fl. West 

 Eiver, Febr. 1857, legit Sampson. Not previously recorded from 

 China. 



46. Avicennia officinalis, L. In ins. Kulangsu, Amoy, Julio, 

 1865, coll. Sampson. 



47. Polygonum midtifonim, Thunb. Circa Chinkiang, 1876, 

 coll. Stronach. A rare Chinese plant, as far as I can judge from 

 different envois. 



48. WiKSTRCEMiA MoNNULA, sp. uov . Eamis angulatis gla- 

 berrimis atropurpureis, ramulis pubescentibus, foliis oppositis v. 

 alternis herbaceis ellipticis acutis supra glaberrimis opacis subtus 

 pallidis tenuiter venosis sparsim pilosulis 9 lin. longis 4 lin. latis 

 petiolo f Imeali, racemis ramulos terminantibus capituliformibus 



