302 SPICILEGIA FLOR.E SINENSIS. 



51. Arisama curvatum, Kth. In montibus Fen-wang-shan, 

 prope Shanghai, d. 13 Maii 1877 coll. am. F. B. Forbes. Only 

 found hitherto, I beheve, in the mountains of Upper India. 



52. Carex aristata, R. Br. In collibus Feng-wang-shan, prov. 

 Kiang-su, d. 30 Apr. 1877 coll. F. B. Forbes. The female spikes 

 are rather longer and less compact than in Dr. Boott's figure 

 (Illust. Car., t. 59), or than in a specimen from Shan-si, certainly 

 referable here, which I received unnamed from the Abbe David, but 

 I do not think they can be specifically distinguished. Dr. Boott 

 (/. c, p. 22), seems to lay stress on the hairy sheaths and leaves. 

 They are quite or almost smooth in my specimens from both 

 the above localities, and Treviranus had already pointed out (in 

 Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 317) that C. drymophila, Turcz., is merely 

 a smooth form. 



53. C. Sampsoni, Hance. Cum priore, sed mulfco rarius occur- 

 rebat cl. Forbes, d, 22 Aprilis 1877. This, though a much finer 

 better developed specimen than Mr. Sampson's Amoy plant, on 

 which I founded the species, is certainly the same. The Ta-hu 

 Lake plant referred to by Mr. Hemsley as different from any 

 he had seen at Kew (Journ. Bot. xiv. 210) is also identical, as I 

 know from an examination of the example submitted to him. 



^ 54. C. gracilis, R. Br. E montosis circa Ning-po, a. 1871 

 misit b. Swinhoe. Now, I believe, first recorded from China. 



55. G. hcterolepis, Bge. In udis ad radices montium Pak-wan 

 extra Cantonem, Maio 1879 leg. Sampson. The specimens agree 

 in every respect with Peking and Jehol ones gathered by Dr. Wells 

 Williams and Pere David. Heretofore only known from the 

 neighbourhood of Peking. 



56. Pollinia articidata, Trin. In collinis juxta Amoy, Oct., 

 1857 ; circa Whampoa copiose occurrit, m. Octobri florens. 



& 57. Eragrostis Nevinii, sp. nov. Badice valide fibrosa, culmis 

 1£ pedalibus teretibus glaberrimis erectis, foliis culmo brevioribus 

 nervosis aeuminatis margine involutis cum vaginis pilis longis 

 tuberculo insidentibus obsitis, panicuLne angustae contracts race- 

 moso-compositr-e 2f-5 pollicaris ramis alternis breviter pedi- 

 cellatis simplicibus a basi divisis 2-6 stachyis, axillis nudis, spiculis 

 12-20 floris imbricatis lineari-lanceolatis pallicle purpurascenti- 

 aeneis, valvula inferiore mucronata dorso minute serrulata nervo 

 laterali recto, superiore triente breviore dense breviciliata. 



Secus fl. North Biver, ad angiportum Tsing-yiin, m. Octobri 



1876 leg. Eev. J. C. Nevin, alibique in prov. Cantonensi non rara 



occurrit. (Herb, propr. n. 20602.) 



This, which is probably the grass referred to in my Supplement 

 to the Hong-Kong Flora as a form of E. ,/miciilata, N. ab E., 

 connecting that species with K. zeylanwa, N. ab E., is undoubtedly 

 very close to both species. Mr. Nevin, however, to whom I have 

 dedicated it, has always insisted on its distinctness from both, and 

 I am now persuaded that he is right. He indeed, after comparing 

 it carefully with all the species in my herbarium, considered it 

 nearest the South African K. chalcantha, Trin. ; but, though it 

 greatly resembles the latter in habit and inflorescence, I do not 



