326 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
profusion of its flowers. For more than four months the trees 
remain covered with their rt ented obs blooms which 
and a few more at the Roman Catholi Cathedral at Canton. It 
is indeed to the Fathers of the above Mission that we owe the 
preservation of this Bauhinia. It was discovered by them near 
the ruins eh a house on the sea-shore, and cuttings were planted 
-in their en; from the trees thus produced the Botanic 
rae : 
plant Secu aineateaii re. Its native dit must remain for the 
present obscur 
achys sandra rebecge sp.noy. Frutex vagans. Folia alterna, 
ovata, integra, 5-6 pol. longa, chartacea, glabra, apice obtuse 
acuminata, basi ae venis paucis utrinque Roisin, 
petiolis 2-3 pol. longis. Spica vel (floribus infimis agian 
pedunculatis) racemi solitarii sillats, bpven 2 1-2 pol. | 
rubri. Flores plurimi superiores ma 
his s specie s aight be idk, ah a robust state of P. axillaris 
Franch., but is distinct in its entire leaves, elongate inflorescence, 
and stalked female flowers. 
BRISTOL PLANTS. 
By Crepric Buckyatt, Mus. Bac., and James W. Wurtz, F.L.S. 
a resumption of work on the Ghgdalsed Flora of Glowester- 
L. In very wet—sometimes flooded— 
spots on enclosed land in the Boyd Valley, West Gloucester, about 
six miles south-east of Bristol, and but a short 
Som 
rank 
weeks n specimens were brought to a meeting of Uni- 
versity cllags Botanical Club by Miss Brooks, the discoverer. 
