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iitihie conditions, or are restricted to certain species. It is susbitle 
that all those species at least which present enlargements of the lower 
nodes may produce bulbils. mi extent to which increase is 
effected by this asexual process has not been investigated; the 
copious production of bulbils in C. fragifera does not a appear to lessen 
the amount of nucules. Nor is the significance of the two kinds of 
bulbils understood ; are the minute globular unicellular egg-like bulbils 
(so abundantly produce by C. alopecuroides for instance) of the same 
nature as the large lobulated multicellular ones full of starch- granules 
found in the ie species? Cultivation might decide such points 
as these, and C. fragifera was found by M. Durieu to grow readily 
from the bulbils 
e structure of the bulbils of several species is — by 
Montagne in a memoir in the Annales des Sciences Nat., ser. 3., xviii., 
p. 65, and by Clavaud in the Bull. Soc. Bot. France x., on 13 7; in the 
plate | accompanying the latter paper those of C. fragifera are it 
In collecting Charas, the radical erento nd rhizoids should be 
always carefully taken up with the spec 8. 
Descrirtion or Tas. 192. 
. ara fregifera, Dur. Drawn from specimens collected by Mr. J. Bra: 
near essed 1. A female pata at, size. 2and 3 
mh stem. 4. Termination of a Semis. 5. A whorl e Wann 6. A public 
. Anucule. 8. A bulbil. 
TWO NEW SPECIES OF ZYSIMACHIA. 
By Henay F. Hance, Pu.D.,, ere. 
al Lysmmacuta (Zubinia) Fanvm-crxcum, sp. nov.—Eglandulosa 
sebechure caule decumbente longe repente fib bras uitibaGtes copiosas 
emittente compresso- -tetragono alis 4 angustis marginato, foliis alternis 
ellipticis pig ae erl Pepe uaa ulalis eerie acutis papyraceis ard 
nninerviis 24 poll. longis 10-13 lin. latis 2 apr mipolli 
iste niet & abeuntibus, floribus colitarfis, *podicelis 
gracilibus apicem versus paulo incrassatis 12- 13 ongis, sepalis 
anguste lancolti exquisite acumina’ atis 4 lin. rac ey capsula spherica 
eee et odorarium vulgo adhibits, ascitur in x niGntDS 
elatioribus provincie Kwangsi, unde ab autochthonibus Miao Pi 
dictis defertur. re ecimina debeo benevolentie Rev. R. H. Gra 
n. 
sarin the pint are unknown, there can be no doubt that 
this is most closely allied t rua ramosa, Wall. !,* from which it is 
readily distinguishable by its habit, by the shape of its leaves and 
sepals, its smaller fruit, and particularly by its persistent odour of 
fenugreek, so strong tuat the mere bringing of the herbarium sheet on 
* Klatt, Die Gatt. Lysimachia, tab. 17. 
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