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fulvo-hirsutis, foliis 2-3-jugis, foliolis subeequalibus 13—2 poll. longis 
petiolulo subsemipollicari anguste marginato suffultis e basi plerumque 
lata truncata ovatis deltoideo- vel rhombeo-ovatis subito in acumen 
longum productis crenato-serratis costulato-nervosis non reticulatis 
costulis utrinque 5—7 complanatis vix elevatis subtus secus costam ad 
insertionem costularum 2-3 infimarum fulvescenti-lanosis praterea 
glaberrimis, floribus dioicis, masculis in paniculas confertas erectas 
foliolorum par infimum raro attingentes digestis, pedicellis lineam longis, 
calyce $ lin. longo aeute 4-lobo, corolla nulla, antheris lineam longis 
obtusis filamentis paulo longioribus, flor. foem. et samaris . . . .. ?—In 
umbrosis montanis Chine borealis, prope Jehol, Maio florentem, coll. 
R. P. Armandus David, missionarius apostolicus. (Exsice. n. 14679.) 
So far as I am aware, but two Ashes of the section Fraxinaster have 
hitherto been recorded from Eastern China :—F. Chinensis, Roxb., only 
known to me from Roxburgh's character, and from the figure given by 
Mr. Hanbury in his * Notes on Chinese Materia Medica,’ and F. Mand- 
shurica, Rupr. The former differs by its lanceolate merely acute leaf- 
lets, of which the terminal one is described as much larger than the 
others, and borne on a long petiolule, its small drooping panicles, 
and polygamous flowers: of the latter, which Regel (Tent. Fl. Ussur. 
104) is disposed to think may be a mere variety of F. excelsior, I have 
an authentic fruiting specimen, gathered by Maximowiez at Possiet 
Bay; it differs widely by its much larger oblong gradually acuminate 
leaflets, finely reticulate and slightly downy beneath along the whole 
midrib, cuneate and sessile, and hairy at their insertion; the flowers 
also are destitute of calyx. Like its Manchurian congener, M. David’s 
plant, by its dicecious flowers, shows an affinity with the American 
species. The primary costiform veins are flattened, as if subjected to 
pressure, and differ from the slender elevated veins of other species. 
The leaflets are more conspicuously and abruptly acuminate than in 
F. (Ornus) retusa, Champ., or F. longicuspis, S. and Z., of which latter 
Species Mr. Sampson has found a single tree near Canton, whether 
wild or not I cannot say, though I have visited the locality. 
5. Convoleulus translucens, n. sp.; herbacea, glaberrima, 3-12 pol- 
lices long., foliis e basi cordata lanceolatis acutis petiolo lamina triente 
vel plus breviore suffultis 1—1-pollicaribus lineolis pellucidis creberrime 
notatis pedunculis unifloris folia eequantibus vel iis dimidio superatis 
medio bracteis binis minutis subulatis preditis superne incrassatis, 
