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SHORT NOTES. 
Evcenia micropuytia Abel. — In my paper on Chinese Oaks 
I have unearthed two of Abel’s species, and the object of 
this note i _ to rescue ee ered description of another species 
from the limbo of his “ Narr: eee, algo Abel 
(Narr. of Journey in Interior of China, p- 864). ‘E. foliis obovatis 
basi attenuatis subtus 8 punctatis ebsetitis terminalibus folio longi- 
oribus. - Frutex 
erticillata, mm 
ramis adultis a breve petiolata, in petiolo attenuata, supra 
glabra nitida obsolete venosa, subtus punctata, punctis sparsis. 
Pedunceuli terminales, trichotomi, multiflori, sparsim squamosi. 
Bacee pisiformes, purpuree ad basin bracteis duabus $ squamiformi- 
bus instructs, monosperma. Cotyledones plano-convexe.” The 
plait § was gathered near Nan-gan-fou, at the most southerly point 
of Kiang-si Province, close to the border of Kwang-tung, and is 
further mentioned by pies on page 181:—“A a species of 
eaten by our Chinese attendants.’ As in the case of the oaks, my 
search for the type specimen of this plant has proved unsuccessful. 
_ Judging, however, from the description given by Dr. Hance of his 
E. pyxophylla (Journ. Bot. 1871, p. 6), it must be very closely 
allied to Abel’s species, if the two are not ultimately found to be 
identical. A plant, collected by Dr. apie near Kiu-kiang 
( arn and partially described by Mr. S. Moore (Journ. Bot. 
1875, p. 227) as poets a new species, may also prove to be 
felaenbto here.—F. B. Fors 
LL-SAP CRYSTALS Seats of the colouring material present 
in the petals and he portions of plants are by no means 
common, or, as a rule, easy to obtain. It may therefore interest 
some to know, that the aah, violet-coloured cell-sap in the flower 
of Justicia speciosa, a common and easily-grown stove-plant, 
8 i btam 
a eg treatment ; ; after a few hours the colourin ater 
ollects into a few cells, in the form of the crystals bev 
prereset forming a very pretty and interesting object for @ 
quarter-inch objective.—Grrznwoop Pim 
oO T RECORDED IN ‘ Pevosasninad Borany. — 
Caliha palustris, Ranunculus auricomus, R. Ficaria, Viola odorata, 
Malva moschata, Geranium molle, G. Robertianum, Vicia Bobartit, 
V. Bithynica var. angustifolia, Sazifr aga tridactylites, S. granulata, 
Lonicera Periclymenum, Sherardia arvensis, Scabiosa pre Fi 
germanica, Digitalis purpurea, Veronica serpyllifolia, V. officinalis 
