A DECADE OF NEW CHINESE PLANTS. 111 
given to it in the above quoted place by its first discoverer, Mr. 
Griffith. I may add that Dr. Thwaites, who received the Chinese 
plant from me just at the very period when C. aspera was discovered 
in Ceylon, was disposed to think the former a mere variety of it. 
Whampoa, 6th Nov. 1867. 
SERTULUM CHINENSE: A DECADE OF INTERESTING 
NEW CHINESE PLANTS. 
By H. F. Hance, Pu.D., ETC. 
44091. Naravelia pilulifera, n. sp.; ramulis inflorescentiaque tenuiter 
tomentellis, foliolis e basi cuneato-rotundata ovatis obtusiusculis api- 
culatis preeter nervos strigillosos glabratis, petalis 9-12 patentibus fili- 
formibus corpusculis solidis oblongo-subglobosis coronatis viridibus.— 
In silvis densis ad fauces Tsing-yune dictas fl. North River, prov. 
Cantoniensis, d. 18 Septembris 1866, coll. Sampson et Hance (Exsice 
n. 13748 
A very interesting species, closely allied to N. Zeylanica, DC., but 
quite distinct by the remarkable capillary petals, exceeding the stamens, 
and terminated by solid roundish heads about 1-14 line in length, so 
that they look like pins stuck round the flower. 
4 9. Cardamine paradoxa, n. sp. ; radice fibrosa, caule erecto 1-14- 
pedali glabro profunde sulcato, foliis glaberrimis inferioribus longe 
superioribus sensim brevius petiolatis 3-foliolatis foliolis amplis petio- 
lulatis lateralibus basi truncatis v. subcordatis ovatis terminali szepe 
ovato-lanceolato v. lanceolato basi cuneato longius petiolulato obtusi- 
usculis crenato-serratis venis primariis in denticulos excurrentibus, 
floribus in racemos graciles multifloros panieulam terminalem effor- 
mantes digestis, sepalis petalisque albis inter se eequalibus his ungui- 
culatis oblongis, pedicellis erecto-patentibus floribus eequilongis, siliquis 
in specimine immaturis subbilinealibus stipitatis ellipticis utrinque 
acutis compressis mono- vel rarius 2—3-spermis stylo iis triplo breviore 
suboblique rostratis, stigmate minuto capitato, seminibus ovalibus 
compressis.— Ad os magne spelunez necnon in rupe calearea Kai-kun- 
shek, secus fl. West River, prov. Cantoniensis, d. 27 Maii 1867, de- 
texit insomnis Sampson. (ÉExsicc. n. 13844. 
