NEW CHINESE CYRTANDREE. 169 
seg in colour and marking. A transplanted specimen flowered 
n June, 1882, and from this I have drawn up my character. 
I have ciaiad it after Mr. Henry’s eldest daughter, a sweet little 
girl, and the —- companion and assistant in his fruitful 
botanical explorati 
2201 7. Boea a te ra, sp. nov.— Caudice brevi merken ara 
nervis venisque reticulatis conspicue elevatis 5-7 poll. longis ad 
2 poll. latis, pedunculis ‘folio paulo brevioribus dense fulventi- 
confluentibus, ovario oblongo glaberrimo, rite brevi, stigmate 
punctiformi, te 8 lin. longa 
Sec n-chau, prov. Cantonensis, m. Maio 1881, leg. rev. 
B. C. Henry. ‘(Her wo gat no. 21741. 
fine spec which my srg are not in fully 
developed flower, sepeets closely — to B. flocculosa C. B Cla ke.* 
It lived with me for many months, but died —— blossoming, 
being attacked by a species of Coccus. 
Primulina, genus novum. 
Calyx lageniformis, ultra medium 5-fidus segmentis lanceolatis. 
Corolle hypocraterimorphe tubus us ng lobis 5, oblongis, 
paulo inequalibus, patentibus. Stamina 2, imo tubo inserta; 
filamentis Pain. anther libere, loculis divaricatis. Staminodia 
nulla. Discus niliec = m liberum, breve, oblongum, biloculare, 
placentis bilobis; stylas vix ovario longior, stigmate bilamellato. 
rage caulis. Folia css at petiolata. Scapi apice umbellatim 
5 flor 
ba habitu floribusque Primulam mire simulans, a Didymo- 
carpo, Oreocharide et Chirita, corolle forma facile distinctum 
WW? gp, Tabacum.—Radice fibrosa, foliis carnosulis orbieulari 
oblongis obtusis margine lobulatis basi leviter cordatis pilosi 
subtus glandulosis nervis supra impressis subtus fortiter iicatis 
2-21 poll. longis petiolo crasso supra plano subtus convexo apice 
v. per totam longitudinem marginato 2}-34 poll. longo fultis, 
Scapis petiolo circ. equilongis Powe ac glandulosis 3-5 floris 
post anthesin arcte recurvis, floribus breviter pedicellatis beanies 
os 
Ad angusti as Taicli, secus fl, Lien-chau, 270 m. p. a Cantone, 
d. 10 Oct. 1881, leg. rev. B. CO. Henry. (Herb. propr. no. 22094.) 
* Commelyn. et Cyrtandr. Bengal. t. 83. 
