Vol. IV, No. 9.] Dioscorearum novarum Descriptiones, 449 
[N.8.] 
flores fceminei despicientes ; pedicellil mm.longi. Perianthii femi- 
net laciniw exteriores ovate @, acute, crass@, 1-25 mm. longs, brunneo- 
s 
lineolate, 12—14 mm. longe, 11—12 mm. late. Semina gemina, 
circumcirca mae mrt oppositifolia, cael Flora Hongkong- 
ensis (1861), p. 367; O. H. Wright, pro parte, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. xxxi (1903), . 92 (syn. excl.) 
Carna ortenTALis, In Colonia britannica Hongkong: Happy 
Valley, et Little Hongkong, (in Herb, Hongkong) ; Tytam, Hance. 
DioscorEA BICOLOR. Rhizoma nobis ignotum. Caules alte 
scandentes, teretiusculi, glabri, i mean 9." dextrorsum volu <Aicoiag 
viridi-rufescentes. Folia opposita ( omnia? ) utrinque glaberrima, 
fere concoloria, pallide lineolata, subcordata, breviter acuminata, 
is 
secondariis arg utrinque distinctis ; petiolus glaber, sulcatus, 
us. Spice mascule simplices, sepius terne ad axillas 
folioram, wikesenlo 1 em. longo incluso ad 12 cm. longee, 50—70- 
ore ; flores alternatim oie) in rhachi trigono densius hogy ie 
bractew lanceolate: 1—1-5 mm. lo ; bracteole perparve, ova 
iain stale masculi laciniee ie ma exteriores e basi gibbosa or- 
biculato-ovate, obtuse, brunneo-maculate, fere 2 mm, longer; in- 
teriores ol c \aanral vix l mm. longe. cance sex, qualia, 05 mm. 
Ss 
in pCO simplices, 10—12-florse , flores ? despicientes ; bractese 
ovato-lanceolate. Perianthii foeminei laciniw biseriate, ovate, in- 
fas] 
per, ntaces, exacte dimidiato-e to-elliptice, Jalsa et basin y versus 
acute, subglauce, 22—25 mm. longe, 8-9 mm. 
Cuina Avstrauis. In provincia “Yunnan, in scat 
Mao-kou-tchong supra Ta-pin-tze ad =i Het alt, Delay, 
et sine loco, Delavay, | 1829.” zat 
Typi in Herbario Horti Botanici Pavisisat conservati sunt. 
Species fructu distinctissima. 
Droscorza Couminel. Radix nobis ignota. pects vastad 
ibus 
brévibus. dense vestitus, crassiusculus, inermis, 
a rufo-nigrescens. Folia alterna, quinata ; foliola chatte- 
edium i 
anguste- “pes basi acuta, ‘apice breviter acuminata, margine 
intégro,-ad 10 em. longa, ad 3-em. lata, penninervia, nervis 
