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breviter at dentibus 2 posticis fere coalitis; corolla pallide 
coerulea, 5-6 lin. longa, calyce 4-plo longior, extus tenuiter sericea, 
legumen 4-5 pol. longum, lineare, ad basin angustatum, com- 
pressum, stig marginatum, 2-valve, tomentosum, tarde glabre- 
scens; semina 2-4, lenticularia, 5 lin. diam. 
CHINA . Ebalatlco ng Island, mixed woods on the hills behind 
Aberdeen, Tutcher; near Little Hongkong, aa ng Herb. 
“n. 1972, — Sheko, n. 1902, Lantao Island, 25.5.88. 
Like most of the novelties recently de scribed from the island, 
it was gathered Py my ic colleague Mr. Tutcher, after whom 
IT hav: 
To this | = species must be added as a second member of the new 
section Hance’s Tephrosia ovaria, also from Hongkong (Journ. 
Bot. 1886, 17). It was referred by him to the section Brissonia, 
Javan species (T’. flammea F. Muell. &c.) in being reticulato- ene 
nerved ike that in Millettia ed an lineate as in other Tephrosia 
species. 
TEPHROSIA OVARIA Hance. Descriptioni l.c. addendum: flores 
Lea, tated rosei; legumen cuneato-obovatum, 2-3 pol. longum; 
semin Ao 
Cu : Hongkong Island, Mt. Kellett, South, Tutcher, Hong- 
kong Horb. n. 4663, Aberdeen, n. 5343 
Atylosiacrinita, Sp. nov. Frutex¢gracils, scandens. Non ge 
lique striati ibi exigu Foliola 3, exsti- 
pellata, eee regular, rarmact ss oblique shotibostind , integra, 
2-4 pol a, 1-2 pol. lata, papyracea, supra breviter sed molliter 
jyubesoens, infra sislhiberhirevee punctis resinosis conspersa, petiolo 
communi 2-3 pol. longo. Racemi or ari 3-5 pol. longi. Flores 
punctisque resinosis conspersus, lobis 4, acutiusculis, ovatis, tubo 
equalibus vel brevioribus, superiore paullo aliis longiore ; corolla 
glabre vexillum late ovatum, 6-9 lin. longum, retusum, calyce 
2-3-plo longius ; ale oblongo-ovatz, calyce circiter bis longiores ; 
carina in rostrum incurvum obtusum protracta; o ovarium circiter 
7-ovulatum, pilis aureis dense crinitum, punctis resinosis con- 
spersum; stylus pubpuanns filiformis. Legumen ae lineare, 
acutum, 1 ol. longum, 3-4 lin Inbar, inter semina lineis 
Zin ita, — depressum ; semina rhomboidea, Hesphisitic 
2 ata 
Pari aw Hainan Island, Ford, n. 366; Lienchow 
eae. "Ford, 13.8.87. 
Ormosia mollis, sp. nov. Arbor, ramulis dense pubescenti- 
bus striatis. Folia pinnata, 10-12 pol. a foliola 3-5-juga, 
neon oblongo- vel ovato-lanceolata, integra, 3-6 pol. longa, 
artacea, supra glabra, subtus molliter hirsuta, obtuse acuminata, 
