862 A SECOND NEW CHINESE PODOPHYLLUM. 
species is very striking, and would be worth study. Prof. Baillon 
s of them as borne “au sommet d’une espéce de hampe,” * 
which is, I fear, d misleading. He is an 
enthusiastic pupil of Payer’s, the best portion of whose excellent 
‘Eléments de botanique’ is, I think, that devoted to inflorescence. 
I hope, if Dr. Baillon should chance to see e these remarks, that he 
FF ree or P. pleianthum, but the prolongation above the lower 
leaf in P. Emodi and P. versipelle must, I think, be regarded as a 
satisenintboni of the stem,—or, morphologically speaking, rather 
branch, since the rhizome is the true stem—and the petiole of the 
upper leaf as arising only just above the insertion of the flower or 
flowers. In the new plant the leaves’ vary marvellously in outline 
are either with or without lobes. The flowers are only half as 
large as in P. pleianthum, and the anthers are twice as long as the 
filaments. 
ipelle, sp. nov. —Caule squamis 4-5 imbricantibus 
glaberrimis supra sublucidis swpiusque maculis saturate v ae 
viridibus plus minus distincte pictis subtus pallidis centrice 
centrice peltatis nunc orbiculatis v. quadratis 5-7 engnbaties ‘facies 
bus inter angulos planis v. a angulis in lobum triangulatum 
rahearadal nervis supra impressis subtus leviter tantum promimulis 
i subulato: dentionlatis 24-7 poll. diametro 
caribus, pedicellis 1 llicaribus apice paulo incrassatis, sep 
adpressis ovatis obtusis venosis 3-9 lin. longis 8-4 s interi- 
connectivo in apiculum obtusum } linealem producto, ovario ellip- 
cco “phere stylo brevi stigmateque magno pmo coronato 
nta paulo superante, ovulis indefinitis circ. 4-seriatis. 
ti fissuris montium Lo-fau-shan, prov. Canton ciste: juxta 
cenobium buddhicum Put-wan-mun, alt. 2000 ped. et ultra, florens 
legit rev. B. C. Henry, m. Mai 0 1883 ; in variis prov. locis sterile 
‘seenurent cell. Faber et Ford. “(Hae propr. n. 2 
e species of the genus at present known ne be conveniently 
arranged thus :— 
I. Diplostenon.—Stamina petalis duplo numerosiora. 
Flores albi, solitarii, inter folia Stee termi- 
8. icanum. ‘ . P. peltatum 
* Hist. d. pl. iii. 59. 
