10 AET. I. B, HAYATA : 



etsi characteres essentiales posterionim." The genus is also 

 referred to Dipsaceae by Hemsley in Foebes and Hemsley's 

 Index Flora Sinensis, I. p. 399, and also by F. Hœck in Eng. 

 n. Peant. Pfl.-fam. IY.-4 p. 187. When I examined the plant in 

 the Herbarium at Tokyo, where we have very few Chinese 

 specimens for comparison, I thought that it must be a plant 

 belonging to Valériane se, and I saw that the plant was 

 quite referable to the genus Hœckia, then newly established by 

 Professors Englee and Ge^bnee in Diels', " Die Flora von Central 

 China. '"^ 1 saw also that the description of //. Aschersoniana Engl. 

 and Ge.^bn. accorded fairly well with my plant, though there 

 are some minute points in which they do not exactly agree. 

 As the plants of this family are usually subject to some muta- 

 bility in the magnitude of flowers and leaves, I thought the 

 present plant to be identical with H. Aschersoniana. During my 

 work in the Herbarium at Dahlem, I examined the type of tlie 

 Hœckia and also the specimens of the Triplostegia of the Hima- 

 layas, and found that they are exactly the same as those with 

 which my plant also is identical. The present plant is, therefore, 

 mentioned, in this work, under the name of Triplostegia glanduli- 

 fera Wall. As to the position of the present genus, it is, in my 

 opinion, much more desirable to refer it to Valerianese, than to 

 place it in Dipsacese. 



I may here mention another remarkable case given in this 

 work. Of all the plants contained in the flora, perhaps the most 

 striking genus is Oreomyrrhis, which is all but pecuhar to the 

 Australian flora, belonging to Umbelliferae. The genus is, not 

 only new to the flora of the island, but also new to that of the 



1) DiELs, L.— Die Flon-, von Central Cbinn, in Eng. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX p. 598. 



