28 DE. H. F. HANCe's SXTPPtEMENT TO 



*Strobilanth6s flaccidifolius, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 194; T.Anders, 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 481. ( = S. Championi, T. Anders. inBenth. 

 Fl.Hongk. 261.) 

 Dr. Anderson has shown t)iat this plant, which, according to 

 Fortune, is largely cultivated for tinctorial purposes iu the pro- 

 vince of Chekiang, is the source of the celebrated blue dye called 

 " Eoom t", extracted by the Assamese and Burmese, and by the 

 Mishmi hUlmen. 



*Justicia procumbens, Linn.; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 611. ( = Rostellaria procumbens, JVees; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 265.) 



*Dicliptera chinensis, Nees. 



Dr. Anderson has now ascertained (Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 520) 

 tliat D. Burmanni, Nees, and D. Roxbrnrglm, Nees, which he had 

 been disposed, with Mr. Bentham, to regard as identical with this^ 

 are quite distinct species. 



*C£iTyopteris Mastacanthus, Schauer. 



This plant has a strong scent, exactly like that of the wood em- 

 ployed for sheathing lead pencils (Jimiperiis virgmicma, Linn. ?). 



*Prenma integrifolia, Jdnn. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 894. ( = P. serrati- 

 folia, Linn. 1 Benth. Fl. Hongk. 269.) 

 Miquel doubts the identity of Linnseus's P. serratifolia ; but, in- 

 dependently of this, the other name is much the more applicable-— 

 as the leaves are usually quite entire, or have at most a few blunt 

 teeth, but are never serrate. 



*Callicarpa breviceps, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nnt. Par. ser. 5, v. 233. (= 

 C. longifolia, var. brevipes, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 270.) 

 I cannot regard this as a form of O. longifolia, Lam., which has 

 longer and entire or minutely serrulate leaves, extremely viscid 

 when fresh — glabrous branches — the blossoms scarcely on« third 

 the size, disposed in lax, many-flowered, longish-stalked cymes — 

 the roundish-oval anthers eight or ten times as small, borne on 

 lang capillary exserted filaments, and the fruit only about f of a 

 line in diameter and flat at the top. In C. brevipes, on the other 

 hand, the branches are clothed with a yellowish furfuraceous pu- 

 bescence ; the leaves, which are without any trace of viscidity, 

 iiave distant shallow serratures ; the cymes are almost sessile ; 

 the flowers fewer, larger ; the large anthers only partially pro- 

 ject beyond the coroUa; and the fruit is spherical, and about 

 as large as a pepper-corn. Mr. Sampson, as well as myself, has 

 t Cfr. Bondot, Le Vert ae Chine, 34. 



