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" Berries edible. It is said an army was once saved from starvation 

 by living on them for some days." I now make the amende 

 honorable to Prof. Oliver, for having ventured to dispute his 

 opinion as to the position of this genus. I am at present satisfied 

 he and M. Maximowicz (in his recent most interesting revision of 

 Spiraacem), are correct; and I think it stands close to Cotoneaster , 



Photinia, and Ilhaphiohpis. 



23. Photinia cbenato-serrata, sp. nov. Eamis cortice griseo 

 obductis, ramulis innovationibusque tomentosis, foliis meinbranaceis 

 spathulato-oblongis obtusissimis retusis glaberrimis supra lucidulis 

 subtus pallidioribus opacis et inconspicue venoso-reticulatis venis 

 primariis ad utrumque latus circ. 15 a triente inferiore ad apicem 

 crenato-serratis serraturis nempe rotundatis apice incumbenti 

 (quasi ex sinubus) minute calloso-apiculatis f ad If poll, longis 

 4-7 lin. latis in petiolum subbilinealem angustatis, corymbis com- 

 positis literalibus et terminalibus multifloris basi foliatis, bracteolis 

 linearibus deciduis, floribus longiuscule pedicellatis, calycis gla- 

 berrimi lobis late semiovatis acutiusculis margine glandulis 5-7 

 minutis prsBditis, petalis rotundato-elhpticis saepe emarginatis, 

 staminibus circ. 20 alternis brevioribus, ovario omnino infero 

 apice extus loculisque biovulatis intus albo-villosissimo, stylis 

 5 liberis apice paulo incrassatis stigmatibus simplicibus. 



In prov. Hu-peh, juxta oppidum Ichang vere 1879 coll. 



T. Waiters. (Herb, propr. n. 20988.) 



This appears very distinct from any species hitherto described, 

 and is perhaps nearest to P. Fortuneana, Maxim. (= Cotoneaster 

 Fortunei, Wennig = (kteomeles Pyraeantha, Dene. 



24. Drosera (Rorella) indica, Linn. Circa Amoy, ipse legi m. 

 Octobri 1857. 



25. Drosera (ErgaUium) lunata, Ham. Ad cacumina montium 

 Pak-wan, supra Cantonem, Martio 18G8 invenerunt Sampson et 

 Hance. A most beautiful plant when seen growing, as it often 

 does, in dense carpet-like masses, its glandular-fringed leaves 

 sparkling like jewels in the sun. I consider it quite distinct as a 

 species from I), peltata, Sm. 



2G. Jussi<ea repem, Linn. In stagnis agri Cantonensis stepe 

 occurrit. 



27. Acanthopanax spbwsa, Miq. In coll. Feng-wang-shan, prov. 

 Kiang-su, d. 20 Maii 1877 coll. F. B. Forbes. Now, I believe, 

 nrst recorded out of Japan. 



28. Abelia Haneeaw, Mart. Secus fl. North River, prov. 

 Untonensis, m. Jan. 1879, fef. coll. Dr. Gerlach. It is to be 

 ^gretted that this species should only be known in fruit. 



29. Serissa fee tula, Comm. In collibus demissis ad fl. Siang, 

 re g- sept. prov.Hu-nan, ®st. 1878 coll. T. L. Bullock. 



The branchlets in these specimens are clothed with lines of 

 dense short crisp hairs, on alternate sides, running down from the 

 b ase of the stipules. The leaves, too, are much larger than in any 

 cultivated plants I have seen or in the wild ones I formerly 

 gathered at Amoy, some of them measuring two inches in length 

 b y nine lines broad. 



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