104 SPICILEGIA FLOR.ID SINENSIS. 



primariis divaricatissimis saepe apice volubilibus foliolis brevissime 

 petiolulatis luembraiiaceis anguste laiiceolatis acuminatis s^epius 

 latere exteriore basin versus lobulo auctis teiiuiter peiminerviis 

 1-1^ poll, longis 1^3 lin. latis, pedunculis axillaribus 1-fioris 

 folia paulo excedeiitibus iiifi*a medium bracteas biiias sessiles ovatas 

 acutas 2-pollicares (ex alterius axilla pedicellum bracteatum 

 florii'erum rarius edentes) gerentibus, flore erecto, sepalis 

 6 oblougis acutis medio triiierviis extus sericeis 15-18 lin. longis 

 5-7 lin. latis genitalia duplo superantibus marginibus ptyxi involutis ; 

 filamentis ligulatis antlierisque iis triplo brevioribns glaberrimis, 

 carpellis plurimis dense liirsutis staminibus 2-3-plo brevioribus 

 breviter rostratis. Circa Cliinkiang, prov. Kiang-su, a. 1876, coll. 

 W. G. Stronacli. (Herb, propr. n. 20136). 



A handsome species, quite distinct from the few other East- 

 Asiatic members of the section. I cannot determine the colour of 

 the flowers from the diied specimens. 



2. Ranunculus hirtellus, Royle ? In parva insula Si-dong-ding- 

 san, lactis Tai-hu, prov. Ghe-kiang, d. 30 Apr. 1874, leg. F. B. 

 Forbes. The specimens differ from Himalayan ones by the 

 X3ubescence, apx^ressed on the ujDper portion of the stem, being on 

 the lower part composed of dense pale buff spreading hairs : I do 

 not see any other differences. 



3. TroUius asiaticus, Linn., /3. typicus, Egl. In m. Siao Wu-tai- 

 shan, 100 mill. pass, ab urbe Peking, occasum versus, m. Julio 

 1876, coU. Hancock. I refer the plant to this variety — of which I 

 have beautiful specimens gathered by Stubendorff at the river 

 Birjussa, in Eastern Siberia — because it has 16 sepals and 

 24 petals ; but it agrees with the var. a finis (= T. chinensis, Bge.), 

 which Pere David sent me from the Peking mountains, in the 

 narrowness of the latter organs, and their almost equalling the 

 sepals. 



4. Lychnis [Mdandrium, WahlhergeUa) apetala, Linn. In monte 

 Siao Wu-tai-shan, Jul. 1876, coll. Hancock. New to the flora of 

 China Proper. 



5. Hypericum [Eyeiiianthe) t</'rt/in7i,Hain. Circa Cliinkiang, 1876, 

 coll. Stronacli. Agrees better with the Indian plant than with a 

 Japanese specimen of H. jxUuluui, Thunb., which has the leaves 

 proportionately much wider, the stem almost terete, excei)t at the 

 upper portion ; and does not seem quite identical. 



6. Hypericum (Eu-hypericum Holusepalum) attenuatum, Clioisy. 

 Juxta Cliinkiang, a. 1876, leg. Stronacli. 



7. Vitis jjentaphylla ,Tlihg. Circa Cliinkiang, 1876, coll. Stronacli. 

 The late Prof. Miquel attempted an arrangement of this difficult 

 genus ('Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.,' i., 72.); but, while his divi- 

 sions are for the most part natural, they are assigned too high a 

 value, and the sequence in which he has placed them is unnatural; 

 for instance, Kalocissus is far nearer \'itis than it is to Monustir/ma 

 or AmpeJopsis. If, however, we adopt as primary divisions Cissus 

 and Eu-citvi, as defined by Kurz. (' Journ. As. Soc, Bengal,' xliv., 

 170), and group Miquel's divisions under these, combining 

 Ampelopsi* with Monoatiijma, — for neither the length of style nor 



