A CHINESE PUZZLE BY LINN@/US. 825 
suddenly-inflated knob quite absent in the present species. The 
flowers certainly thus make an approach to CU. micrantha, R. & P., 
colou red rene given of the eno leaves, extremely like 
feet, and the flowers of this ‘‘morada”’ to be ‘‘ purple” ; but a 
closely-allied form, ‘la verde,” has them ‘‘ white. 
For the specimens figured I am indebted to Mr. Walter Agar. 
They are from Mahanilla — ti the Maskeliya district of 
Ceylon, about 54 years old from seed, and about 9} feet high 
ote plantation i in the Nilginis, obtained, there can be no doubt, 
from trees which originated from Mr. Ledger’s seed. 
Peradeniya, Ceylon, September Ist, 1881, 
XPLANATION oF PLATES 221 anp 222.— Fig. 1. A flowering is Pde * 
A panicle-branch showing the dimorphic habit of the flower. Buds 
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opened (enlarged ). Fig. 6. Fruit. Fig. 6.* Id. (from ie hing 7. Tree (oe 
which specimen was taken (,';). Fig. 8. Top of a seedling pl 
A CHINESE PUZZLE BY LINNAUS. 
By Pror. Asa Gray. 
‘Species Plantarum’ Linneus characterized and 
named an Athamantha chinensis, and gives s the following indi- 
urce : b 
th applies it to some Chinese Umbellifer. 
DeCandolle, in arn <Prodromus,’ seizing upon the phrase ‘ Sta- 
tura Selini Monnieri,” adds the name (with references both to 
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gout hy, Hatien rin secon of this riddle, panel , that 
Selinum ca 
from Genesee, mah name Linneus had inadvertently ehanged 
to Chinense. The Linnean herbarium confirms ane nee as 
to the plant, which although only in the flowering state, well 
accords with Selinwm canadense ; and so does the desertion of he of the 
+ ‘Journ. Bot.,” 1869, p-1,t 
