234 ON LYSIMACHIA CUSPIDATA. 



decumbent habit, giving out a flowering peduncle at each node ; 

 the spikes are straw-coloured, the fertile glume quite destitute of 

 hairs on the back, and the pedicelled floret tabescent and awnless. 



65. Anthistiria caudata, N. abE. In montibus Pak-wan, necnon 

 in collibus demissis ad boream urbis Cantonis sitis, mm. Nov., 

 1867, Oct., 1868, coll. Sampson et Hance. A remarkably distinct 

 and rare species. 



QQ. Calamagrostis arunclinacea, Roth. In monte Miao feng shan, 

 Chinae bor., m. Augusto 1874, coll. Dr. 0. a Moellendorff : secus 

 fl. Lien-chau, prov. Cantonensis, m. Oct., 1876, leg, Rev. J. C. 

 Nevin. Though now recorded from the extreme north and south 

 of the empire, I am not aware that this grass has been gathered 

 before in China. 



67. Bromiis japojiiciis, Thunb. Juxta Chi-fu, a. 1873, leg. R. 

 Swinhoe. Gathered previously at Kiu-kiang by Mr. Forbes's 

 collector. 



68. PolypocUum floccigerum , (i. loriforme, Mett. In rupibus secus 

 fl. Lien-chau, i^rov. Cantonensis, m. Oct., 1876, coll. Rev. J. C. 

 Nevin. 



I have seen no authentic specimens, but these agree well in 

 dimensions, venation, and the remaining characters, with Mettenius' 

 description. This particular variety had only hitherto been found 

 in Java. 



69. Helmmthostachys dulcis, Kaulf. In montosis prov. Can- 

 tonensis rara: specimina debeo benevolenti^e Rev. R. H. Graves. 

 Now first recorded from China. 



70. Lijcopodiuin phlegmaria, Linn. Li arboribus silvarum ad 

 Ting-ii-shan, secus fl. West River prov. Cantonensis, d. 10 Julii, 

 1870, leg. Sampson. China is not mentioned by Spring, in his 

 monograph, amongst the habitats of this plant, as represented in 

 the Hookerian herbarium. 



Note. — The plant referred in the first fasciculus of these 

 " Spicilegia," — from the description only, — to Pediciilaris Jongifiora, 

 Rudolphi, is, according to M. Maximowicz, a distinct species which 

 he has described under the name of P. chinensis. (' Mel. Biol. 

 Acad. St. Petersb.,' x., 87.) 



ON LYSIMACHIA CUSPIDATA, Bl., AND LYSIMACHIA 

 CUSPIDATA, Klatt. 



By Henry F. Hance, Ph.D., F.L.S., Memb. Acad. Nat. Cm-., &c. 



In a paper which was recently printed in this Journal, I gave a 

 list of the Lyshiiachi(E known to me — from the actual possession 

 of specimens — as occurring in China.* Amongst them was the 

 one figured by Klatt as L. ciLsjndata, Bl., which, as I pointed^ out, 



♦ Trimen, * Journ. Bot.,' (n.s.), vi., 357, 



