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SPICILEGIA FLOREZ SINENSIS: DIAGNOSES OF NEW, 
AND HABITATS OF RARE OR HITHERTO UN- 
RECORDED, CHINESE PLANTS. 
By rue wate H. F’, Hance, Ph.D., Memb. Acad. Nat. Cur., &c. 
, | x: 
[Somz rough memoranda for another number of the ‘' Spicilegia” 
have just been sent to me by Mrs. Hance, with a request that the 
last botanical work of her late husband should be published in this 
ournal ave scrupulously copied my lamented friend’s manu- 
seript, save where I have found obvious slips of his usually accurate 
n. ave also completed the references = ta by him, and 
have added a few others in notes.—F. B. For 
1. Silene (Coven conoidea L. — 2B collinis circa Foochow, 
prov. Fokien, a. 1883, coll. W. R. Carle 
2. Pileostegia Bi SESE Hook. f. & tho oms. — In jugo Lo-fau- 
shan, prov. Cantonensis, m. Aug. 1888, legit C. Ford. Not before 
met with in South China, but gathered hs Dr. yon Méllendorff at 
ang. 
8. Lagerstramia microcar, m Wight. — Cirea Ki-lung Formose 
septentrionalis, Junio 1884, leg. C. Ford. Previously found in 
Araneng, by Mr. Sampson (Journ. Bot. ge p. 107. 
4, a (Bubonium) Britannica L. — Ad ripas limosas fluvii 
Cantonenis juxta urbem, m m. Aug. 1885, et Ya earring n. This 
variable and widely diffused species qrenrs abundantly spare net 
the wicks of North-Eastern Asia and in Japan, but this 
record from the — ‘South of China. It is role ti, 
whether this has been before ion ‘out of Japan, where a is, 
I believe, rather uncommon.+ 
Linociera (Ceranthus) faplodians Hance. — Ad pagum Wo- 
chi, jurisdictionis Lam-ko, ins, Hainan, d. 1 Nov., legit rev. B. C. 
Renny: The e inflorescence i is legs eatin than in the Cambodian 
pecimens, an e leaves are irregularl 
find no other differences lie . Bein eines 
7. Monochasma Savatiers Franch. — In collinis cirea Foochow, 
prov. Fokien, est. 1883, coll. W. R. Carles 
8. ompostenna Rine Oliv. — In Fon. Hainan, ad pagum 
Fau-lun, territorii_indigenarum Lai dictorum, d. 15 Noy. 1882, 
legit rev. B.C. “hae i ' 
according to the ata. z 6 colour of the flowers is white, 
PE nse wrerenat™ in se Pee Flore Sinensis’ only from Shensi, in North- 
t Recorded aa ue Archipelago in Engler. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 65.—F. B. F. 
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