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Bess.). The plants, too, are smaller and more compact and fleshy 

 than the inland form of this species. My notes are based entirely on 

 material collected on the dunes near Freshfield, on the Lancashire 

 coast. 



TWO NEW PLANTS FEOM HONGKONG. 



By W. J. TuTCHER, F.L.S. 



•^ Quercus (Chlamydobalanus) Elizabethse, sp. n. Arbor 

 30-40 ped. alta. Bamuli juniores angulati, pubescentes. Folia 

 petiolata, lanceolata, 3-6 poll, longa, f-li poll, lata, subcoriacea, 

 glabra, integerrima, apice acuminata vel caudata, basi cuneata, 

 supra subnitida, costa subplana, nervis primariis inconspicuis, 

 infra vix pallidiora, costa elevata, nervis primariis lateralibus 

 utrinque 12-16 intra margines curvatis anastomosentibus venis 

 tenuibus vix elevatis ; petioli 6 lin. longi, glabri. Amenta mascu- 

 lina desunt. S-pica femininae in axillis foliorum superiorum dis- 

 positae, folia interdum superantes, erecto-patentes, foliis nunc 

 multo breviores nunc subequales ; pedunculi crassi, tomentosi, 

 floribus in glomerulis trifloris dissitis ; styli 3, erecti. Fructus 

 secus pedunculum dense dispositi, juniores ternatim aggregati, 

 1-2 tantum maturantes. Ciq^ula IJ poll. diam. 1 poll, longa, 

 subglobosa, intus argenteo-sericea, extus subtiliter pubescens, 

 brunnea, apice depressa ; squamae triangulares, apiculatae, arete 

 adpressae, demum concretge, supremae incurvae, circiter 8-seriataB. 

 Glans subglobosa, circiter 9 lin. longa, castanea, glabra, apice valde 

 depressa, basi truncata, concava. 



Mt. Victoria north-west, Hongkong ; and Taiwai, Hongkong 

 New Territories, Tutcher, Hongkong herb., nos. 4616 and 9114. 



This interesting species I have named after my wife, who has 

 shared my island home in Hongkong for the last twenty years, 

 and to whom I owe so much. It has the leaves of Q. fcnestrata 

 Eoxb., which has also been found in Hongkong, and the fruit is 

 somewhat similar to that of Q. confragosa King, from the drawing 

 and description of that plant in the Ann. Bot. Gdns. Calcutta, ii. 

 p. 77, t. 71. The young acorns, unlike those in the latter species, 

 are completely enclosed by the cup at a very early stage, and are 

 quite glabrous. 



Amorphophallus Dunnii, sp. n. Tuber globosus, 2 poll, 

 diam. i^o//a 12-18 poll, diain., glabra; petiolus 12 poll, longus ; 

 segmenta terminalia 2-3 poll, longa, |-f poll, lata, lanceolata, 

 caudata, inferiora minora. Pediinculus 9-10 poll, longus, levis. 

 iSpatha 5-6 poll, longa, cymbiformis, inferne convoluta, intus basi 

 purpurascens, cetero flavo-viridis. Spadix stipitata, 4-4^ poll, 

 longa; pars feminea 6 lin. longa, 3 lin. crassa, cylindrica; mascula 

 7 lin. longa, 6 lin. lata ; appendix 2f poll, longa, fusiformis, crassa, 

 acuta, ochroleuca. Ovarium 2-loculare, ^ lin. longum, subglo- 

 bosum. 

 Journal op Botany. — Vol. 49. [August, 1911.] x 



