* 
42 NOTE ON THESIUM DECURRENS AND T. CHINENSE. 
(= Lasiolepis pancijuga, Bennett), hitherto recorded only from Java 
and the Philippines, there occurred one or two good specimens of the 
Capparis magna, of Loureiro, rightly referred by De Candolle to the 
genus Crateva. It is evident, however, from the character assigned 
by Wight and Arnott to Hamilton's C. Nurvala, that this is the same 
plant. . De Candolle's name of C. magna was published in 1824, in 
the first volume of the * Prodromus, and has therefore, I believe, two 
years’ priority over that of Hamilton, given in the fifteenth volume of 
the * Linnean Transactions,' which it must of course supersede. 
NOTE ON THESIUM DECURRENS, Bl, AND 
T. CHINENSE, Turcz. 
Bx H. F. Hancz, Pu.D., ero, 
Professor Miquel, in his *Prolusio Flore Japonice’ (Ann. Mus. 
Lugd.-Bat. iii. 132), records both of the above species from Japan, 
referring to the former Maximowicz’s Yokohama specimens, and to the 
latter those gathered by Oldham at Nagasaki, and distributed under 
n. 659, and adding “ Superiori omnino simile, sed perigonii pars libera 
brevior, ejusque pars indivisa in flore lobos zequans; hi in fructu 
sistunt coronulam apice vix inflexam brevem (breviorem quam in 
superiore), in illo dein partim involutam; braeteole (que vero in su- 
periore etiam variabiles), multo breviores, nuce depresso-globosa brevi- 
ores.” Both of these plants are now before me; the first sent me 
from Yokohama by M. Maximowicz himself, and labelled ** 7. de- 
currens, Bl., ? B. longibracteatum, A. De Cand.," the latter from Kew, 
with the XS mentioned number and Jusétaitón? s name with a ? 
prefixed. From a very careful comparison of these, I am quite satisfied 
that they are both in flower and fruit in every respect identical, and 
that no dependence can be placed on the characters on which Miquel 
relies for their distinction, which in fact do not hold good in my speci- 
mens. And not only so, but they are both undistinguishable from a very 
fine gathered in sandy places around Jehol, for whieh I am 
indebted to Father Armand David, and which is unquestionably refer- 
able to Turezaninow's species. Nor do I see any characters to sepa- 
rate a plant sent me from paneer: in the island of Formosa, by the 
