10 ART. I.—B. HAYATA : 
etsi characteres essentiales posteriorum.’’ The genus is also 
referred to Dipsacee by Hemstey in Forpes and HeEMsrey’s 
Index Flora Sinensis, I. p. 399, and also by F. Hack in Ene. 
u. Prant. Pfl.-fam. IV.-4 p. 187. When I examined the plant in 
the Herbarium at Tokyo, where we have very few Chinese 
specimens for comparison, I thought that it must be a plant 
belonging to Valerianee, and I saw that the plant was 
quite referable to the genus Hwckia, then newly established by 
Professors ENGLER and Grapner in Diets’, “ Die Flora von Central 
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China. l saw also that the description of H. Aschersoniana ENGt. 
and Grasn. accorded fairly well with my plant, though there 
are some minute points in which they do not exactly agree. 
As the plants of this family are usually subject to some muta- 
bility in the magnitude of flowers and leaves, I thought the 
present plant to be identical with H. Aschersoniana. During my 
work in the Herbarium at Dahlem, I examined the type of the 
Heckia and also the specimens of the Triplostegia of the Hima- 
layas, and found that they are exactly the same as those with 
which my plant also is identical. The present plant is, therefore, 
mentioned, in this work, under the name of Triplostegia glandult- 
fera Watt. As to the position of the present genus, it is, in my 
Opinion, much more desirable to refer it to Valerianex, than to 
place it in Dipsacee. 
I may here mention another remarkable case given in this 
work. Of all the plants contained in the flora, perhaps the most 
striking genus is Oreomyrrhis, which is all but peculiar to the 
Australian flora, belonging to Umbellifere. The genus is, not 
only new to the flora of the island, but also new to that of the 
1) Diets, L.—Die Flora von Central China, in Enc. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX p. 598. 
