166 NEW CHINESE CYRTANDRES. 
Finally, in 1875, Mr. 8. Le eee mors recorded the Japanese 
Lysionotus pauciflorus Maxim. from Kiu-kiang, and described a new 
referable to Oreocharis, or perhaps swt « nil cago bringing up . 
the Chinese numbers of the order to ele 
The exploration by the Rey. B. C. pes one of the most 
assiduous and successful investigators of the Kwang-tung flora, of 
the lovely and romantic regions of the Lien- chau River, has now 
brought to light eight other species, of which diagnoses are subjoined, 
a few of them unfortunately dra » from incomplete specimens. 
Mr. Clarke also reports an undescribed Chirita, collected by the 
late Mr. Swinhoe at Amoy, so that, within a period o of twenty years, 
than six-fold. The occurrence of eight new species of one group, 
all collected by a single person, within a limited region, shows the 
extraordinary richness of the flora, and the great amount of 
interesting oe en still awaiting discovery, as the area of ex- 
ploration is en 
In con waving foe brief remarks, the ae desires to record 
his opinion — that eg Sensi a have at least as good (or as little) a 
claim to se m Gesnereeé as ’ acciniacee have from Hricacee ; 
and that Es creer the Cyrtandreous genera require subdivision, if 
gage cop - be—as they should —considered equivalent to those of 
the an sub-order. They do oi seem to have been quite 
ie dealt with in the ‘ Gene 
\w¥? 1. Oreocharis ? filipes, sp. sii — Radice tenui lignosa de- 
scendente, foliis radicalibus oblongo- obovatis integerrimis utrinque 
obtusis supra vivide viridibus tomento derasili floccoso primum 
tectis demum glabratis ut tag densissime fulventi-pannosis venis 
utrinque omnino inc onspicuis Ssubpollicaribus a lin. latis petiolo 
pannoso 3-lineali laberrimis arcuato- 
recurvis circ. 2 poll. longis apice sihballakin” trifloris, calycis 5- 
partiti laciniis angustis acutis, corolla ?, capsula lanceolata acumi- 
nata glaberrima 3 lin. tantum longa. 
Sub rupibus impendentibus, “ad angustias Yeung-tin, fluvii 
Lien-chau, 290 m. p. a Cantone, d. 12 Oct. 1881, coll. rev. B. C. 
Henry. (Herb. propr. n. gee 
Although there is but a single calyx without corolla, and a 
capsule on all the specimens g cathe ed, so that I have been unable 
to examine the floral structure, yet the “habit of this pretty little 
plant makes me feel almost sure that it is fgg to Oreocharis, 
2% 2. Didymocarpus (OrtHosaa ?) demissa, sp. nov.—Caudice 
brevi crassiusculo, foliis fet bos aliigeise: oblongis pgs bere 
acutis utrinque dense hirsutis 2- pollicaribus in petiolum pollic 
sensim angustatis, seapis foliis super atis pilis septatis villosis aie 
8-5-floris, pedicellis 2 lin. longis, calycis 24 linealis 6-partiti 
cohen sabe aubelath villosis, corolle albide e tubo gracilescenti 
superne modice ampliate extus tomentose pollicaris lobis oblongis 
* Journ. Bot. 1875, 1) pp. .. 229, a1, 
