268 TIHORELIA. 
stated to be a species of Lolium, and it is added that the native herds 
carefully avoid eating it.* 
named plant, from which it differs by its much laxer panicle, longer 
stalked flowers, longer glumes, and much more strongly twisted and 
longer awn. I possess no specimens of S, parviflora, Desf., which, as 
well as the beardless-anthered S. Bungeana, ‘Trin., has a still longer 
awn.{ I take this opportunity of naming and characterising the North 
Chinese plant 
) , sp. nov.—Radice fibrosa, perennis, culmo 23-3 
pedali erecto nodis levibus vaginis glabris v. hirsutis, foliis linearibus 
acuminatis plus minus involutis levibus v, scabriusculis 1-1 d 
paradiso imperatorio prope Peking; necnon ad Ku peh kau, 
juxta magnum murum, mensibus Aug.-Sept., 1866, coll, Dr. S. W. 
Williams. (Herb. propr., n. 13831.) 
THORELIA, 
Genus Plantarum novum, propositum a Heyr. F. Hance, Ph. Dre. 
Acad. Cws. Leop.-Car. Nat. Cur. Sodali, cet. 
Caxycts erassiusculi tubus campanulatus, levis; lobis 5, 
zequilongi, ovati, obtusi, symtyxi valvati. a 
eee 
_ * Mongolia, the Tangut country and Northern Tibet, ii, $1. It seems 
likely that the poisonous nt in the province of Tangut mentioned by Marco 
oa — L, ¢. 43), and which Col. Yule suggests may be an Hricacea, is iden- 
ne + Plant. nov. v. min. cognit: itin, caspio-caucas., 41, t. 40. 
ee - > Trin. and Rupr. Spec. gram. Stipac., 61-62. eek 
