78 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (March, 1909. 
A transverse section of a typical petal of a flower from Dar- 
jeeling is given in figure 10 to show how much of the surface the 
nectary occupies. Attention may here be drawn to the little 
sharp conical cells that stud it. 
As far as my experience goes the roots that the Mishmis 
bring down to Sadiya are all alike : there are no two forms 
among them 
The leaves of the Mishmi plant are elongate-deltoid in 
outline; and a normal: one is drawn as fig. No. 11 opposi ite, 
it by the side of it is a leaf with the lateral lobes unusually 
arge. 
I now pass on to the Chinese plant. In the first instance 
it is wild on the Burmo-Yunnan boundary, whence Mr. H. G. C. 
Leveson in ni sent it tome. He had found it on moist soil, 
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derably at Ya-chou-fu in the centre of revere ee’ whence there is 
a large export (Report on the Province of Ssuchuan, 1904, p. 49) ; 
Farges ascertained that it is cultivated a “Heow-pin in the 
eastern part of Szechnen, Wilson that it is grown in adjoining: 
Hupeh, and Henry in in that part of Hupeh which is known as 
North Wushan. Further Ford has obtained a specimen from 
the remote neighbourhood of Canton—whether cultivated or wild 
I do not know. 
giving it the name of C. chinensis, haaats e he said ‘‘ the forin 
of the petals and sepals sharply differentiates it.’’ There can be 
