232 spicilectIA flok^ sinensis. 



hairs, and the leaves are longer and more truly Imear (though 

 rather obtuse than subulate) than represented m Wight's plate. 

 ('Icon.,' ui., t. 1444.) 



48. Lamium j^etiolatuw, Royle. In Silver Island, Chin-kiang, 

 Maio, 1863, invenit Hay. Known previously from the Himalaya 

 and Japan. Franchet and Savatier ('Enum. PL Jap.,' i., 381) 

 refer the Japanese plant, which I have not seen, to L. album, Linn. 

 In the present one, the pilose ring in the corolla-tube is certainly 

 oblique, but yet I do not regard it as referable to that species, for 

 the leaves are cuneate at the base and the calyx-teeth are greatly 

 produced, whilst there is a marked difference in the aspect. 



49. Leucas ^a/zata,Benth. Ad Hoi-tau, ora occidua ins. Hai-nan, 

 Jan., 1866, leg. F. Fagg. Undistuiguishable from Dr. Thomson's 

 Western Himalayan specimens. 



50. Leucas zeylanica, R. Br. Ad Hoi-hau, ora septentr. ins. 

 Hai-nan, coll. F. Fagg, Dec, 1865, Sampson et Hance, Nov., 1866. 

 The more equal subulate less rigid calyx-teeth, closely placed and 

 with acute sinuses and nerves conspicuously prolonged downwards 

 into the hispid incurved tube give the flowers of L. aspera, Spr., a 

 different api^earance. In the ^Dresent plant the calyx-tube, glabrous 

 for the greater portion of its length, is shorter, more turbinate, less 

 curved, quite truncate at the apex, the teeth distant and filiform, 

 with then- nerves soon evanescent. L. linifolia, Spr., which Dr. 

 Thwaites seems to think may be also referable to L. zeylanica, is 

 apparently well characterised by the canescent calyx, and the 

 extreme obliquity given to its mouth by the protraction of the 

 upper tooth. The foliage of all three is alike. 



51. Deerim/ia celosioides, R. Br. Ad pagum Hoi-tau, ora occidua 

 ins. Hai-nan, d. 31 Dec, 1865, coll. F. Fagg. 



52. Euphorbia Atoto, Forst. In arena ins. Prata, ad oras Chinse 

 merid., Maio, 1858, coll. Wilford : ad Hoi-hau, ins. Hai-nan, vera 

 1877, leg. Bullock. 



53. Euphorbia bifida, Hook. & Aiii. Macaii, in dechvitatibus 

 herbosis ad mare, ipse legi, m. Decembri, 1866. 



54. Streblus asper, Lorn'. Juxta Hoi-hau, ins. Hai-nan, 1877, 

 leg. Bullock. 



55. Fatoua japo7iica, Bl. Chca \'iculum Ho-au, prov. Can- 

 tonensis, a. 1856, coll. b. Krone, soc. rhenanae apud Vinas 

 missionarius ; in incultis juxta ipsam urbem, autumno 1875, 

 invenit Rev. J. C. Nevin. 



The rudimentary pistil in the male flowers is usually split to 

 the middle mto two oblong lobes, but is sometimes altogether 

 absent; the anthers are quite white. When ripe, the fruit sphts 

 downwards from the top, and shoots out the putamen elasticaUy to 

 a great distance. The leaves differ in shape in different specimens, 

 and the varieties proposed by Bureau cannot, I think, be distin- 

 guished. Not heretofore recorded fi'om China. 



56. Saururm Loureirii, Dene. Ad ripas limosas canalium, 

 Whampoae, legi Maio, 1865, necnon in varus locis juxta Cantonem. 



There seems no character to keep Turczaninow's Saicriiropsis 

 apart from this. 



