108 SPICILEGIA FLOR.E SINENSIS. 



more or less hairy beiieatli, the pnmary vehis three on each side of 

 the costa deeply impressed on the upper and prominent on the 

 under surface ; there are no stipular linibri£e, though the sheaths 

 are hairy like the sides of the stem, but a subulate tooth ; the 

 flowers are in axillary clusters of about ten, white, and with 

 exserted stamens ; the capsule is roughish and two-seeded, but 

 I have not succeeded in making out the mode of dehiscence. It is 

 probably impossible to discover if this be really Sprengel's species, 

 but except in the erect habit, perhaps wrongly ascribed to it, it agrees 

 exactly with the brief diagnosis (* Dietr. Synops.,' pi. i., 476). I do 

 not think it can be Loureh'o's S. fiexaosa. S. scaherrima, BL, 

 according to a Banka specimen in my herbarium, gathered by 

 Teijsmann, is a near ally, but much robuster in habit, ^^ith the 

 angles not the plane surfaces of the stem hau'y, long stipular 

 bristles, flowers twice as large, in depauperate clusters, &c. 



23. MYRRms? CH^R0PHYLL0IDES,S7J. vior. Caule angulato sulcato 

 giabro, foliis bipinnatisectis segmentis superioribus exceptis pinnati- 

 fidis acutis margine subtusque ad nervos strigosis vaginis petio- 

 laribus margine apiceque lanoso ciliatis, involucro nullo, umbellis 

 6-9 radiis, involucelli phyllis 5-6 oblongo-lanceolatis acutis ciliatis 

 reflexis, umbellulis 6-10-floris floribus pluribus sterilil)us, petalis 

 albis obovatis, h-uctibus giaberrimis oblongis 2^ lin. longis lateraliter 

 compressis jugis obtuse prominulis, vittis nullis, stylopodiis conicis 

 basi in marginem undulatum expansis. In ins. Silver Island, 

 juxta Chinkiang, Maio 1863, coll. Hay ; cii'ca oppidum Chinkiang, 

 a. 1876, iterum invenit Stronach. (Herb. prop. n. 10127.) 



I have repeatedly examined the fruit of this, without being able 

 to detect any trace of vittae ; and hence, though in aspect and the 

 slightly i)rominent juga it agrees better with Charojjhyllum, it 

 seems technically to fall into the genus Myrrhis. 



24. Conyza OKjyptiaca, Ait. Ad muros urbis Amoy, ipse legi, 

 m. Octobri, 1857. Quite like G. Thomson's Madi'as and Pinard's 

 Egyptian specimens. It is curious that this plant is not recorded 

 from any part of India (Clarke, ' Compos. Ind.'), or Western Asia 

 (Boissier, ' Fl. Orient.') 



25. Gnaphalijon tuiioi/cnsc, Hance. Secus fl. Lien-chau, ^jrov. 

 Cantonensis, 100 mill. pass, ab ostio, Octobri 1876, coll. Rev. J. C. 

 Nevin. Only known previously from Amoy. 



26. Chrysanthemum (P//?vf^>•»»^)oREASTRUM,S7^ nor. Herbaceum, 

 perenne, tripollicare, laxe pilosum, foliis carnosulis 4-7 lin. longis 

 ■|-f lin. latis radicalibus confertis linearibus apice trisectis segmentis 

 lineaiibus iterum trisectis setaceo-mucronatis caulinis linearibus 

 margine hmc inde denticulatis apice simpliciter trisectis summis 

 linearibus indivisis margine apiceque fusco-membranaceis, floribus 

 terminalibus solitariis, involucri squamis subscariosis lineari- 

 oblongis obtusis pallidis extus cum caulis apice dense albo-tomen- 

 tosis margine lato membranaceo glaberrimo ferrugineo sublacero 

 cinctis, ligulis oblongis albidis (?) involucrum duplo superantibus. 

 In monte Siao ^^'u-tai-shan, Chinse bor., m. Julio 1876, coll. 

 Hancock. (Herb, propr. n. 20132.) 



1 have not been able, from the only two specimens in my 



