: ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF PLANTS FROM KIUKIANG, 259 
the island of Formosa, but not on the Chinese main land, and thus 
bridges over the gulf in their eastward distribution. The most inter- 
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Atlantic- American, Japanese and Manchurian 4. margaritacea, 
Benth. 
I have spared no pains to insure accuracy in the determinations ; 
and have omitted four or five plants, either not in flower, or in so 
imperfect a state that it was impossble to make them out properly. 
matis (Flammula) tenuiflora, DC.—Common in various parts of 
oy China, but I have not before seen it from so far north. 
‘Boceonia cordata, ‘ld. 
cages (Gulyehnisy grandiflora, Jacq.—I do not know whether 
this has been found wild before: Loureiro mentions it only as in culti- 
ve been introduc China into Japan, where, however, in the 
nes pare of Nippon, Tschonoski ae the too ‘closely allied LZ. Sieboldi, 
ll ( Euhypericum, BOONE attenuatum, Choisy. 
Hypericum (Brathys) japonicum, Thun 
Boenninghausenia albiflora, Rchb.—Now first recorded from China ; ; 
only peionsly pipes from het mountains of India and from J: ian 
osis (Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., 
Caleta D. tinctorium, which also belong to this section, has 
pinnate are os is otherwise very differe rent. 
th tion Doll: 
with very shallow obtuse calyx-lobes. It has pach the aspect of 
" azyphyllum, DC., but s entirely smooth, with ovate rhomboid 
seaflets reti reticulate beneath, the veins somewhat coloured, and loose 
iculate small iene racemes. I have little doubt it is new, 
“ae do i venture to describe it from my solitary specimen, which 
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elongated lower calyx-tooth attributed to mowicz’s variety apo 
(Mél. Biolo cen Acad. St. Pétersb., ix., obey with which it agrees 
orescen 
yy aria Th und , Ben 
Rupus ( Suffcionn ite) jedage sp. nov. oe 
reetaa foliis coriaceis o 
Petiolo 24 pollicari cordatis sieve eipaidils 2 pbb lobulatis 
Nregulariter serratis supra glaberrimis subopacis cog cage 
