376 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
s japonicum nd Zucc. (Hongkong), 
to the genera mentioned, as their fruit is unknown. Now 
genus El@odendron may have to resume its northern limit as 
ai 
regards Asia in the hot plains of India. 
Hedyotis Matthewii, sp.n. Herba preter corollam glabra, 
erecta, 1-2 ped. alta, ramulis quadrangularibus. Folia breviter 
foliatam formantes; bracteis parvis subulatis ; pedicellis flori- 
feris calycem paullo excedentibus, fructiferis elongatis, calycem 
semel vel bis excedentibus; calycis dentes tu 
barbatis, tubum bis vel ter excedentibus ; stylus exsertus ; capsula 
in. longa, dentibus conniventibus ter longior, crustacea, ovalis ; 
gulata 
HIN wangtung, Lienchow River, collected on Fleet- 
Surgeon C. G. Matthew’s Lienchow Expedition in December 1907, 
042 
Very near Hedyotis tenuipes Hemsl. but at once distinguished 
by its elongated capsu . 
petiolis brevibus, stipulis ex setis paucis brevibus formatis. Flores 
2-3-ni in axillis asciculati, subsessiles, 6-7 lin. longi; calyx sub- 
truncatus, obscure 5-dentatus, sparse strigosus; corolla calycem 
5-6-natim superans, anguste infundibuliformes, lobis 4, patenti- 
bus, valvatis, partem quartam tubi «quantibus, intus pubescenti- 
bus; anthers incluse; stylus tubum corolle superans, in stigmata 
4-5 breviter fissus. 
Cina: Fokien, woods at 3000 feet in the Yenping Mountains, 
Dunn, Hongkong Herb. n. 2806. 
