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5. Nasturtmm officinale, L., var. Ta-hoo Lake. This is remarkable 

 for its very lar^e flowers. 



6. Orychophragmus sonchifoUus, Bunge. Peng-wang-Shan. The 

 stem-leaves of these specimens are deeply pinnatilid, instead of being 

 simply toothed, as in the original specimens. 



7. Mypericum electrocarpum, Maxim. Kiukiang. From authenti- 

 cally named specimens, Hance's H. Sampsotii and this appear to be 

 identical. 



8. IT., sp. n. ? Ningpo district. Without studying the whole 

 genus, there is too much risk of adding to existing synonymy by 

 founding a species on a single specimen, however distinct it may 

 appear. The present plant has slender, obscurely 4-angled stems, 

 sessile, narrow, lanceolate-oblong, acute leaves, from two to three 

 inches long by half an inch wide, with numerous very small and in- 

 conspicuous (in the dried state at least) glands, and large terminal 

 flowers, with broad sepals and narrow petals nearly an inch long, and 

 the three styles are about a quarter of an inch long and united to 

 above the middle. 



9. H., sp. n. ? Kiukiang. This is a robust species of the type of 

 H. Ascyron, but I refrain from giving it a name for reasons indicated 

 under the last. The material in this case would be ample, if I could 

 be sure the species is an unpublished one. It has a tall, stout, 

 angular stem, ovate-lanceolate leaves, about three inches long, large 

 flowers with rather narrow petals and five short free styles. There is 

 also a specimen, apparently of the same species, with smaller lanceolate 

 ternately verticillate leaves. 



10. Zanthoxylon, sp. ^ flowers only. Feng-wang-Shan. 



11. Rhamnus, sp. Ta-hoo Lake. It is the same as Fortune's 

 number 37, and possibly a variety of R. globosics, Bge , which Maxi- 

 mowicz unites with R. virgatus, Roxb. 



12. Rhamnus, sp. n. ? Kiukiang. Insufficient for description. 



13. Pueraria, sp. Kiukiang. The same plant was collected by 

 Oldham (n. 178) in Formosa, and it seems to be identical •^ith. Pachy- 

 rhizus mollis, Hassk. 



14. Dimharia [Atylosia) siihrhomhea, 'K\(\. Kiukiang. There a 

 only Japanese specimens of this plant at Kew. 



15. Millettia, sp. n. ? Ningpo. Only a fragment. 



16. Cratagus cuneata, S. & Z. Kiukiang. Fruiting specimens 

 of a Japanese species. 



17. Lythrum virgatum, L. Chefoo. 



18. Liquidamhar, sp. Kiukiang. A small branch without either 

 flowers or fruit. It bears a great resemblance to the American L. 

 styracijlua, but it may be a variety of L.formosana, which, judging 

 from the specimens at Kew so named, is an exceedingly variable 

 species. 



19. Acanthopanax 1 Feng-wang-Shan. Possibly a new species, 

 but there are only quite young flowers. 



20. Lohelia, sp. Kiukiang. One of the small-flowered tufted 

 set, near L. ceespitosa. Bl. 



21. Adenophoka Isabella, Hemsl., n. sp. — Herba perennis (?) 

 ramosa 2-3 ped. alta ; foliis radicalibus non vidi, caulinis cordatis 

 ovato-cordatisve acutis grosse duplicato-serratis parce hispido-pilosis 



