110 SPICILEGIA FLOR^ SINENSIS. 



33. Moneses grmidijiora, Salisb. Cum praecedente. This is the 

 lii'st time the -plsmi has been found in any part of the Chinese 

 Empire. " Asi« boreahs " should be added to the geographical 

 distribution in the ' Genera.' 



34. Li(justrum Ibotu, S. & Z. Circa Chi-fu, a. 1878, coll. C. C. 

 Stuhlmann. Precisely like Japanese specimens from M. Maxi- 

 mo wicz. New to the Chinese flora. 



35. Vinceto.cicum monyolicam, /3. Hancuckianiim, Maxim. ? In 

 m. Siao Wu-tai-shan, coll. Hancock. My specimens, apparently 

 referable to this, are only in fruit, and difier from Maximowicz's 

 description by the stem being entirely smooth, except at the 

 extreme apex ; the leaves quite smooth beneath, but with a few 

 scattered short hau's above along the midiib, and with two or 

 three small raised papillose reddish glands on the upper siu'face of 

 the blade at its junction with the petiole ; the light-brown com- 

 pressed seed I find nerveless, narrowly margined, 7 mill, long by 

 4 wide, with a shining white coma only 11 mill. long. 



36. Vincetoxicum uinpleAcaule, S. & Z. Chi-fu, a. 1873, coll. 

 C. C. Stuhlmann. 



M. Maximowicz remarks that V. acuminatum, Dene., though 

 very like V. japoniciim, Morr. & Dene., is readily distinguishable 

 by its pm-e wdiite corolla double as large, and by the form of its 

 leaves. In a specimen of the former, gathered at Vlada Vostok 

 by M. Sokoloff, a Kussian naval officer, and given me by Dr. 

 Bretschneider, the flowers are sometimes very slightly, sometimes 

 not at all larger than in an authentic specimen of V. japoniciim, 

 y. piirpurascens, received from M. Maximowicz himself, and the 

 leaves all wider above the middle than below, in fact, elliptic- 

 oblong. As, too, the colour of the flowers varies a good deal 

 in the latter plant, I do not think V. acuminatum has any claim to 

 specific distinction. 



37. Cynanchum deltoideum, Hance. Ad sinum Ta-lien-wan, 

 Manchuriae, coll. Swinhoe. M. Maximowicz has recently (' Mel. 

 Biolog. Bull. Acad. St. Petersb.,' ix., 803), aniving at the decision 

 from my description only, mthout knowing the plant, referred this 

 as a synonym to C. pubescent, Bge. I marvel at this, for, as he 

 justly observes, Bunge's species has "folia nunquam alia quam 

 cordata," whereas I had expressly stated those of mine to be "basi 

 lata insigniter truncata." I possess, indeed, no authentic specimen 

 of C. pubescens, but Dr. Wells Williams sent me, from Poking, what 

 I cannot doubt for a moment to be Bunge's plant, and it diflers 

 from mine, not only m the very dilierent shape of the leaves, but 

 in inflorescence and the floral organs. 



38. Khretia ovalifolia, Wight. In ora septentrionali ins. Hai- 

 nan, prope oppidum Hoi-hau, d. 19 Nov. 1866, leg. Sampson. I 

 have seen no authentic specimens, but this agrees well with Dr. 

 Wight's diagnosis and figure ('Icones,' t. 1383). The veins form a 

 prominent reticulation beneath, the primary ones have barbellate 

 axils, and the petioles are ciliate on each side of the upper margin 

 with white hairs arising]: from brown ulandular tubercles. 



