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Zuccarlhi expressly says of Ms plant (Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. ii. 

 194), " Exemplare aus der Q-egend von Ochozk t und aus dem 

 ostlielien Sibirien waren mit den japanischen voUkommen iiber- 

 einstimmend." Moreover I have received from M. Maximo- 

 wicz, under the name of Yotmgia pygmcea, Zucc., a plant gathered 

 in fallow ricefields at Nagasaki (and not enumerated in Miquel's 

 ' Prolusio Florae Japonicse '), which I refer, without the slightest 

 hesitation, to Youngia pygmma, I. lyrata, of Ledebour's ' Flora 

 Eossica.' It has 10-striate linear-lanceolate achenes, completely 

 erostrate, and scarcely even narrowed at the apex, which is 

 crowned by a thickened disk ; the dried flowers are of a pale and 

 dirty purplish hue. This is no doubt identical with Orepis nana, 

 Richards. ; but, as remarked by Torrey and Q-ray (Fl. N. Amer. ii. 

 488), it has nothing to do with Barkhausia, to which it was referred 

 by DeCandolle and Turczaninow. Isoeris stolonifera, A. Grr., 

 has an exceedingly long, delicate, thread-like beak to the fruit. 



♦Scaevola Koenigii, Vahl; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 86. ( = S. Lobelia, De 

 Vr. ; Benth. Fl. Hongh. 198.) 

 Mr. Bentham has shown that Linnseus never called this species 

 S. Lobelia ; the name now adopted is the oldest. 



'*=Iiobelia. 



I believe L. trigona, Eoxb., and L. affinis, Wall., to be distinct 

 species ; and they are so regarded by Drs. Hooker and Thomson, 

 in the ' Praecursores ad Floram Indicam ' ( Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 

 27). The former is, as described by Roxburgh, an erect branfch- 

 ing plant, sometimes slightly creeping at the base, and with 

 broad, ovate, subsessile or sessile leaves, and glabrous pedicels 

 and calyx-tube ; it grows always, I believe, in moist grassy places, 

 and is not, that I am aware, a native of Hongkong or Southern 

 China. L. affinis has a quite different habit ; it shows no dis- 

 position whatever to grow upright, but creeps extensively, throw- 

 ing out rootlets at intervals ; the leaves are conspicuously stalked, 

 usually larger and wider than those of the last, somewhat deltoid 

 in outline, and more or less pubescent ; the pedicels and calyx- 

 tube are pilose, the latter in fruit somewhat less distinctly ribbed. 

 This I have found always in sheltered places, often growing on 

 steep sides of ravines, or in smaU glens. The two species are, as 

 stated by Drs. Hooker and Thomson, often confounded ; and my 



+ I do not find the speoiee recorded in Trautvetter and Meyer's ' Blorula 

 OchotensiB,' nor yet in Kegel and Tiling's ' Florula Ajanensis.' 



