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precisely similar to that of candied citron peel. By the prominent calyx- teeth and the fistular juga (which character, however, disappears in the ripe fruit) this ag-rees with the species separated by Hoffmann under the name of Odericum ; by its infrajugal vittse it, however, differs, I believe, from any Angelica hitherto described. In young fruit the vittse are made out with tlie greatest difficulty, but in mature ones, after maceration, they are very conspicuous. I think the increase in the number of these organs in the Chinese plant, taken in connection with the fact, as stated by Mr. Bentham (Gen. Plant, i. 917), that in some species of Jrchangelica they cohere with the fruit rather than the seed, points to the advisableness of suppressing the latter genus.

The discovery of this plant is particularly interesting, as affording an- other instance of the extension of northern Asiatic forms to South China, to which I have already on several occasions directed the attention of botanists. The genus Angelica (as comprehensively, and I believe natu- rally, characterized by Mr. Bentham) is, unless I err, entirely absent from southern Asia ; whilst, as compared with other umbelliferous genera, it is richly represented on the north-eastern Asiatic seaboard. Excluding Archangelica (which, as mentioned above, I should prefer to unite), Maxi- mowicz and Kegel enumerate six species from Russian Manchuria, and the former author two — probably new ones — from the neighbourhood of Peking; whilst the island of Sachalin, not yet thoroughly explored, has, according to F. Schmidt, four; not of course all different from those of the mainland. Miquel records only three from Japan, but there can be little doubt this number will be augmented ; though, as Euprecht, in his ' Revision der Umbelliferen aus Kamtschatka,' counts but two species from those regions ; Regel and Tiling two from Ayan in eastern Siberia ; and Trautvetter and Meyer only one from Ochotsk ; w^e can scarcely per- haps expect additions from the northern parts of the empire.

5. Abelia adenotricha, n. sp. ; frutescens, ramis oppositis, virgatis tere- tibus basi perularum squamis persistentibus brunneis scariosis auctis junioribus pilis e tuberculo ortis apice capitato-glandulosis densiuscule hirtis vetustioribus cum caule eorumdem basibus asperatis cortice pallide brunneo, foliis ovatis acutis integerrimis 1-2 poll, longis, 6-13 lin. latis, petiolo bilineali suffultis utrinque sed praecipue subtus dense adpresse strigoso-hirtis subtus tenuiter elevato-reticulatis, pedunculis ad ramulorum furcaturas ortis solitariis dense glanduloso-pilosis \-\\ poll, longis apice bracteis binis foliaceis lanceolatis glanduloso-pilosis totidem ffores fulci- entibus munitis, floribus in peduuculo sessilibus, corolla ? (delapsa), acha^niis bracteas subsequantibus oblougis pilis capitatis dense obsitis circ. 4 lin. longis calycis 4-partiti laciniis oblongis acutiusculis uninerviis glanduloso-pilosis inter se insequalibus ipso achsenio triplo brevioribus coronatis.

In vicinitate Jehol specimina fructifera m. Maio invenit rev. Armandus David. (Exsicc. n. 14715.)

A species very distinct by its hairy foliage, glandular pubescence, long naked peduncles, and small fruiting-calyx, apparently coming nearest my A. Davidd. It is a matter for regret that the corolla of neither of these two, nor of A. Hanceana, Mart., discovered by me on the mainland oppo- site Amoy, should be yet known. The present plant, in the herbarium, has considerable general resemblance to Lonicera Maximoiviczii, Rupr. or L. chrysautha, Turcz.

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