NEW CHINESE PLANTS 403 



Differs from P. 'punctata Hook. f. in its obscurely veined, 

 margined leaves. The name of this species commemorates the 

 admirable industry in investigating the Kwantung flora of my 

 official predecessor, Mr. Charles Ford, I.S.O. 



Randia acutidens Hemsl. and Wilson, var. laxiflora Dunn, 

 var. nov. Cymge laxe trichomae, 3-5 cm. longse. 



Happy Valley, Hongkong. " Shrub 6-7 ft. with orange- 

 scented cream-coloured flowers, 18.4.05. W. J. Tutcher" Hong- 

 kong Herb. 2264. 



c HoVfr Saussurea setidens, sp. nov. Herba erecta, praeter flores 

 omnino glabra, 10-15 dm. alta. Caulis valde striatus, pauci- 

 ramosus. Folia caulina inferiora lanceolata, margine dense setoso- 

 serrata, 15-20 cm. longa, papyracea, elongato-acuta, basi acumi- 

 nata, in petiolum alatum angustata. Capitula 1-2 in ramorum 

 apicibus. Involucrum hemisphaericum, 2 cm. latum, bracteis ligu- 

 latis, mucronatis, adpressis tenuiter arachnoideis, paucis exteri- 

 oribus, foliaceis, longioribus. Corollae 16-18 mm. longse, laete 

 purpurea, inferus filiformes, medio expansae, parte expansa infra 

 medium lobata, lobis patentibus linearibus, 5-6 mm. longis ; pappus 

 15 mm., longus plumosus. 



Shady, woods near Seoul, Korea. Hongkong Herb. 4372. 



A considerable collection of Korean plants was made by the 

 writer in the late summer of 1906, in the neighbourhood of the 

 ports of Fusan and Mukpo and around the capital, with the object 

 of supplying the deficiency of species from that region in the 

 Colonial Herbarium at Hongkong. Although the present species 

 was the only novelty observed, a number of plants were collected 

 which had not been previously recorded as Korean. 



r.i/ofe 7 ^ Loxostigma aureum, sp. nov. Herba perennis. Ehizoma 

 repens. Caulis 6-8 cm. longus, dense brunneo-lanatus. Folia, 

 praeter 1-2, in apice cum bracteis foliaceis pedunculisque aggre- 

 gata, ovata, breviter crenato-serrata, 6-10 cm. longa, membranacea, 

 in venis tenuiter lanata, acuta, basi obtuse cuneata vel rotundata, 

 nonnunquam obliqua, venis crebris, curvatis, ascendentibus, peti- 

 olis 1-2 cm. longis, sicut caulibus vestitis. Pedunculus filiformis, 

 2-3-florus, 2 cm. longus. Flores magni, pedicellis 5-10 mm. 

 longis; calyx 5-partitus, lobis linearibus, subglabris, 7-8 mm. 

 longis ; corolla lutea ; tubus medio ampliatus ore obliquus, breviter 

 5-lobatus, 6 cm. longus, basi 3 mm., medio 10 mm., ore 15 mm. 

 latus, lobis rotundatis, 3-5 mm. longis. Stamina in media corolla 

 liberata, os haud assequentia; ovarium angustum in stylum 

 longum attenuatum. 



Sha Kau, N.W. Eiver, Kwantung. Ford's native collector. 



Ford 249. 



sA°^ Ghirita sinensis Lindl. var. nov. angustifolia. Folia anguste 

 lanceolata, in petiolum alatam gradatim attenuata. 



Kwantung, Hongkong New Territories ; in crevices of damp 

 rocks amongst the northern precipices of Ma-on-Shan. Dunn's 



native collector. Hongkong Herb. 1135. 



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