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small-grained, with fragments of hornblende and mica, the latter vary- 
ing in e: as a feeder is near or far away. Sand of rose 
quartz is very common, and deposited in layers with the white, which 
would cipis ribbon-jasper, if duly acted upon by certain agents.* 
Worm-marks, ripple-marks, and the footsteps of alligators, birds, and 
beasts in the wet sand remind one of the fossil footsteps in the Lanca- 
shire sandstones. 
Not a rock, stone, or pebble occurs anywhere between Chunar and 
the rocks at Monghyr; and the vegetation of the banks consists con- 
sequently of annuals which find no permanent resting-place. Along 
the sandy banks the ever-present plants are Ranunculus sceleratus, 
Rumex Wallichianus, Gnaphalium luteo-album, a Potentilla, and very 
frequently Veronica Anagallis. On the alluvium grow the same, mixed 
with Tamarix, Acacia Arabica, and a few other bushes. 
Notes on new or little known PLANTS OF CHINA ; 
H. F. Hance, Esq. 
SYNAEDRYS. (Char. ampl.) 
Glans ossea, basi rotundata, parte superiori depressa vel interdum 
pulvinata, indumento raso tomentoso instrata, apice subumbonata, 
maxima pro parte cupula immersa, incomplete 4—5-loc Cup 
lignosa, hemisphaeriea, glande parum brevior, extus ifi ovato- 
triangularibus dense imbricatis vestita, intus glabra. Semen pendulum, 
totam glandem replens; testa membranacea; embryone exalbuminoso, 
orthotropo ; cotyledonibus maximis, 4—5-lobis, rimoso-sulcatis ; radicula 
supera. 
Pars glandis quae cupulam eminet paulo obducta, ita ut, cupula 
— nux sit apris phallimorpha. Fructus, sinice shi Ji, i.e. 
nea lapidea, vel king li, i.e. castanea Pekinensis, e provinciis bore- 
alibus imperii Chinensis dase, in foris oppidorum meridionalium 
hyeme venalis, saporem Castanez nostratis aemulat.. Frustra hucusque 
specimina arboris viventia quaesivi. 
* The same rose-coloured quartz sand I have seen, covering the bottoms of the 
Himalayan torrents. 
