COLLECTIONS OF 1914 
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Ilex Pernyi (F 16). — This ugly and graceless little dumpy shrub 
belongs to the woodland of the drier ranges — as about the Feng 
S'an Ling, and in the arid scrub of the summit ridges opposite 
Kiai Chow. Not distributed. 
Incarvillea grandiflora (F 34). — With greatest uncertainty do I thus 
name this plant, which stands away from Incarvillea in having 
very minute seeds, wadded up in white fluff in long and very 
narrow pods (? Amphicome sp.). It is a most handsome thing, 
herbaceous from a huge woody stock, with straight 2-foot stems 
set with voluminous glossy foliage, and ending in big nights of 
lovely rose-pink little Allamandas, clear and brilliant, in May. 
This I have only once seen, and only in the hottest of walls and 
stony banks in the hot and parching region about Wen Hsien, 
on the banks and embankments of the Whitewater. 
Incarvillea grandiflora (F 89) lives in the hot limestone ledges of the 
Thundercrown foothills at 7,000-8,000 feet. It is magnificent 
in flower. Unfortunately, all seed had fallen by the time our 
collecting began. [If the same as the Da-Tung plant it is very 
splendid, but monocarpic] 
Incarvillea variabilis var. fumariaefolia (F 97) has weakly branches 
of a foot or so, set with finely-feathered ferny foliage, and 
bearing, from May to November, a steady flight of lovely 
citron-yellow Allamandas. Its home is round Siku, on the very 
walls themselves, and on the hottest and driest and barest 
exposures on the hot, bare, dry loess hills about the town. 
[Also in the Da-Tung region, 1915.] 
Incarvillea sp. (F 268).^ — This may be the same as F 89, but has 
quite a different taste in habitats, not haunting ledges of rock, 
but open broad patches of soil by the track-side ascending over 
the foothills of Monk Mountain. It is reported a superb rose- 
red /. compacta-cousin, and the seed-scapes are 8-12 inches in 
height. I can say no more ; ipse non vidi. Coll. W. Purdom. 
Indigofera sp. (F 105). — This abounds all over the alpine and sub- 
alpine rocks and coppices of Kansu-Tibet, taking forms so many 
that specific differences may be suspected. This seed came 
from low shrubs haunting the sunless walls in the mouth of the 
great Siku gorge, and there flowering gaily in loose flights of 
lilac-pink in early June. 
Indigofera sp. (F 266) is but doubtfully Indigofera at all. It is a 
perfectly prostrate trailing plant, sending out from its crown 
three or four branching naked-looking sprays of 12-36 inches 
long, hugging the ground, and densely set in late August with 
very brilliant crimson-purple blossoms that suggest a much 
improved and flatly prostrate Cytisus fiurpureus. This lovely 
thing occurs in the Nan Ho Valley, and abounds all over the hot 
loess hills about Siku, on steep banks, and at the edges of stony 
fields, paths, &c. 
Indigofera sp. (F 312) is one of the loveliest. It haunts only the 
