300 SPICILEG1A FLORAE SINENSIS. 



The late Mr. Kurz placed this plant, which has a curious resem- 

 blance to the genus Eremophila, in MyoporacM f unhesitatingly 

 amongst Pedaliacea. (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlh. 236.) 



38. llehmannia glutinosa, Libosch. In prov. Hu-peh, prope 

 I-chang, vere 1879 leg. T. "Watters. The wild specimen before me 

 differs so remarkably from all the Peking ones I have seen, by its 

 well-developed long stem, its much more laciniate leaves, the lower 

 ones with petioles exceeding the limb, its longer curved peduncles, 

 flowers attaining a length of 2^- inches, loose acuminate more 

 unequal calyx-teeth, and much wider-mouthed corolla, that it is 

 difficult to believe it conspecific, nor have I been able to dissect a 

 flower ; but it appears from the remarks of Bentham (Gen. Plant. 

 ii. 960) and Maximowicz (Mel. biol. ix. 371) that the plant is 

 subject to great variation. 



39. Tecoma (jrandijlora, Delaun. In collinis juxta fluviuni 

 Siang, regione septentrionaria prov. Hu-nan, rest. 1878 coll. T. L. 

 Bullock. This is the first occasion I am aware of on which this 

 plant, commonly cultivated, has been gathered wild. 



40. Origanum vuhjare, Linn. Ad ripas A. Yang-tze, reg. centr. 

 prov. Hu-peh, aest. 1878 coll. Bullock. An interesting addition to 

 the Chinese flora. Occurs in the mountains of Northern India, 

 and in various parts of Siberia ; but has not, I believe, yet 

 been met with either in Manchuria, Mongolia, or Japan. Mr. 

 Bullock notes that the flowers in his specimens were pure white, 

 as is sometimes though rarely the case in the European plant. 



41. Nepeta Cataria, Linn. Circa Chi-fu, a. 1873, coll. b. Rob. 

 Swinhoe. Pine specimens of a plant now, I believe, first recorded 

 as a native of China. 



42. Scutellaria rinrfaris, Wall. In graminosis circa Tam-sui 

 ins. Forinosae, Martio 1864 coll. b. Oldham ; juxta Swa-tow et 

 Amoy, necnon ad Sai-chu-shan aliisquc prov. Cantonensis locis 

 invenit Sampson. 



43. Stachys aspera, Michx., ft, glabrata, Benth. In humidis 

 montium Pei-shan, prov. Shan-si, iiccnon in campis circa Jehol, 

 mensibus Maio Junioque florentem, legit Eev. Abbas David, miss, 

 apost.; Shanghai, in fossis hippodromi, medio Maii 1877 coll. 

 F. B. Forbes. Pere David's specimens have the angles of the stem 

 with retrorse bristles, whilst those of Mr. Forbes are perfectly 

 smooth, as are the leaves of both : they are, however, certainly 

 identical, and I think with equal certainty referable to Michaux's 

 species, American examples of which have rather smaller flowers. 

 I should, judging only from the description, have supposed Bunge's 

 S. chinensis also to be the same, but Maximowicz (Prim. fl. Amur. 

 220) refers it to 8. hmcahmi*, Fisch., a quite different-looking, 

 much lower, hispid plant, with a very dense abbreviated raceme, of 

 which I have specimens gathered in* East Siberia, near the Lena, 

 by Stubendorff, and others quite identical collected at Vladi Vostok 

 by the late Mr, E. Conolly. This latter is considered a mere 

 variety of S. }><t!i<strls, Linn., by Turczaniiiovv, Ledebour, and Eegel; 

 which, however, it is much more unlike than the Shanghai plant is 



to typical S. aspera. 



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