278 SHORT NOTES. 
ON A NEW SPECIES OF HELENIOPSIS FROM FORMOSA. 
By J. G. Baxer. 
Tue genus Teleniopsis is one of great systematic interest, com- 
bining as it does the extrorse anthers of Colchicacee, with a locu- 
licidal capsule terminated by a perfectly entire style w with a capi- 
tate stigma, as in Liliacez, and a densely-packed mass of little seeds 
tailed at one or both ends, as in Juncus and Narthecium. Sugerokia 
of Miquel is evidently, as ‘has already been pointed out by Maximo- 
wicz, not worthy of generic <r on. sae species are known in 
w a fourth 
Mr. Swinhoe in Formosa, which, differs fro acs others in the inflo- 
rescence being umbellate instead of racemos 
H. umpettata, Baker, n.sp. Rhizom ae brevi preemorso fibras 
copiosas i Bronte foliis radicalibus 6-10 rosulatis oblanceolatis spathu- 
tatis 1-14 poll. jong 7 <pegvatss apice obtusis distincte mucronatis 
in petiolum brevem angustatis, scapo 3-4-pollicari brpotens 3-4 amplec- 
hnrcelste puanits albido-viridulis obtusis } iin. latin , staminibus 
breviter exsertis, stylo 3-4 lin. longo superne crassiori distinete 
exserto, stigmate capitato peltato. Formosa, } 
€ specimens are in flower only, so I cannot say anything about 
capsule and seeds. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Awnrnoxantuum Purtu, Lee. & Lam. 1 Encranp.—Will botanists 
look out for this little grass Phe their districts Mr. F. Townsen 
hough 
le fragmentary specimen he secured would be scarcely sufficient 
for veh botanist less familiar with the eee sea? flora than he is to 
determine. This specimen is now in the British Museum, w which con 
tains ald a series of no doubt the same abies from the neighbout- 
hood of Knutsford, Cheshire, collected in 1872 by Mr. Britten as 4 se 
upper ae and is thus Sleiats * visible. The plant si igh arn : 
in 1847 by Lecoq and Lamotte in their ‘Cat. raiss. des plantes tion. — 
du plateau centr. de la France’ a Ape stag Do where is a long descrip wre 
Good accounts will be found ier and Godron’s ‘ Flore 
