PuatTe 2634. 
LYSIMACHIA INSIGNIS, Hemsi. 
PRIMULACES, 
L. insignis, Hems/. (sp. nov.); a speciebus omnibus hactenus 
a habitu facile distinguitur 
ovata vel ing 6-9 poll. longa, 3-6 poll. lata, longe acumi- 
nata, basi rotundata vel leviter cordata, supra glabra, subnitida, 
pallide an subtus pallida, pulverulenta, venis primariis lateralibus 
utrinque 6-7, venis ultimis laxe reticulatis. Flores... in ra cemos 
laxos parvos secus caulem subnudum dispositi vel interdum solitarii. 
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capillaribus 6-9 lin. longis angulo recto divergentibus. cage albze 
Henry), globose, 3 4 lin. diametro, polysperme, sepalis parvis 
ovatis acutis sustente ; semina angularia, subovoidea embryone minuto 
recto. 
Cuina : Forests to the south-east of Mengtze, Yunnan, at 5,000 ft., 
A, a, 10406. 
About sixty species of Lysimachia are known to inhabit China, and 
they exhibit a greater diversity in habit, foliage, and inflorescence, than 
is found in the whole of the rest of the area of the genus. JL. insignis 
is quite different in habit from all the other species known.— 
W. Borrine Hemstey. 
Fig. 1, a ripe fruit; 2, cross section of the same; 3, different views of a seed ; 
4, section of a seed showing the embryo, All enlarged. 
