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4S 9. Vitex (Euagnus) Sampsoni, n. sp.; crispulo-pilosa, ramis com- 
presso-tetragonis, foliis petiolo iis zequilongo supra canaliculato suf- 
fultis 3-5 foliolatis foliolis cuneato-spathulatis postice integerrimis 
supra medium utrinque 3-5 serratis acutis subtus pallidioribus opacis 
reticulato-venosis infimis dum adsint semper integerrimis abbreviatis, 
cymis brevipedunculatis in paniculas simplices axillares et terminales 
interruptas dispositis, calyce ad medium usque acute 5-fido, corolla 
calyce triplo longiore extus albo-pilosa, genitalibus exsertis.—Ad vias 
prope Ting-ü-shán, prov. Cantoniensis, d. 26 Maii 1867, coll. cl. 
Sampson. (Exsice. n. 13841.) 
The leaflets are in size and shape precisely like the leaves of Lippia 
nodiflora, Rich. 
408° 10. OpAiopogon (Flueggia) umbraticola, n. sp.; foliis linearibus 
subsesquipedalibus 1-14 lin. latis acutiuseulis subquinquenerviis mar- 
gine spinulosis seapum ancipitem parum superantibus basin versus 
angustatis margineque albo hyalino celluloso ipso folio plus duplo 
latiore preeditis, scapo usque ad medium nudo stricto, racemo flexuoso 
laxifloro, floribus albidis 3-fasciculatis secundis cernuis 2 lineas longis, 
pedicellis 4—6-linealibus medio v. paulo supra medium articulatis et 
inerassatis, bracteis lanceolato-subulatis inferne hyalino-marginatis di- 
midium pedicellum sequantibus.—In alveis torrentium umbratis, nec- 
non in silvis opaeis, ad devexa orientalia faucium Tsing-yune, fl. North 
River, prov. Cantoniensis, d. 19 Septembris 1866, coll. Sampson et 
Hance. (Exsice. n. 13759.) 
Though F. Waillichiana, Kth., and F. intermedia, Kth., are the only 
species of this group known to me, it seems clear, from Kunth's careful 
detailed description, that the above plant is new, differing from F. ja- 
ponica by its shorter leaves, flexuose raceme, and long pedicels, jointed 
in the middle; and from F. jaburan by its much narrower, 5-nerve 
leaves, flexuose raceme, and fewer-flowered fascicles. Dr. Thwaites 
reduces, very likely with reason, F. Wadlichiana, F. intermedia, and 
F. dubia to one species, and he even hesitates as to the distinctness of 
F. Japonica. The Chinese plant is certainly quite distinet from the 
two Indian ones I have seen. I do not regard Fliggea as generically 
distinct from Ophiopogon; but, if both genera are admitted, it would 
be better to retain Loureiro's older name of Ziriope for O. spicatus, etc., 
and that of Ophiopogon for the group represented by O. Japonicus, as 
this is the original Rino Fige or “ Snake's-beard ” of the "nes 
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