ON TWO NEW CHINESE FERNS. 175 
brunneo-nervosis per totam longitudinem late hyalino-marginatis, 
ealyculi squamis brevissimis acutis, floribus omnibus tubulosis, achæ- 
niis dense pubescentibus, pappo flosculum aequante.—In alluviis estate 
inundatis fl. East River, prov. Cantoniensis, consociatis Potentilla 
Amurensi, Maxim., C@nanthis (Dasylomatis) specie, cæt., copiose 
vigentem invenit oculatissimus Sampson, d. 22 Febr. 1867.  (Exsicc. 
n. 13827 
This is extremely close—possibly too much so—to S. Aigyptius, 
Linn., from which, indeed, as compared with a specimen of Sieber, it 
seems to differ only by the eligulate florets, widely-transparent-margined 
involucre-scales, and very angular stem. It is an interesting trouvaille, 
as I believe no species of the group to which it belongs has been found 
before in any part of India or easternmost Asia. 
ON TWO NEW CHINESE FERNS; WITH SOME RE- 
MARKS ON THE GENUS WOODWARDIA. 
By H. F. Hance, Pu.D., ETC. 
vi l. Alsophila Metteniana, n. sp.; frondibus membranaceis, 2—3- 
pinnatis, pinnis lanceolatis, pinnulis e basi truncata oblongo-lanceo- 
latis lucidis subtus pallidioribus inferioribus petiolatis ad medium 
usque in lobos obtusos pauci-serratos incisis mediis sessilibus minus 
profunde pinnatifidis summis in acumen pinnatifidum connexis inde 
basi inferiore in alulam rachin marginantem sensimque decrescentem 
decurrentibus, rachibus infra castaneis nitantibus supra ferrugineo- 
strigosis, costa venisque subtus strigillosis, venis simplicibus singulo 
segmento 2-3-jugis ad marginem excurrentibus inferioribus 1-2 medio 
soriferis, receptaculo incrassato paraphysibus plurimis elongatis soros 
superantibus persistentibus donato.—In prov. Fokien Sinarum, a. 
1861, collegit cl. De Grijs. 
This plant is so very like 4. gigantea, Wall., that I had distributed 
it so labelled to various friends. My lamented correspondent the 
late Prof. Mettenius, to whose memory I have dedicated it, however, 
detected the error, remarking, in a note, “ species indescripta, ab 
A. gigantea paraphysibus longissimis distinctissima.” It is much 
nearer that species than 4. podophylla, but the numerous and very 
long paraphyses, the decurrent wing-like bases of the upper pinnules, 
