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42 NOTE ON THESIUM DECUKRENS AND T. CHINENSE.
( = Lasiolepis pancijnga, Bennett), liitherto recorded only from Java
and the Pliilippines, there occurred one or two good specimens of the
Capparis magna, of Loureiro, rightly referred by De Candolle to the
genus Cralccva. It is evident, however, from the character assigned
by Wight and Arnott to Hamilton's C. Nurvala, tliat this is the same
plant. De Candollc's name of C. magna vms, published in 1824, in
the first volume of the ' Prodromus,' and has therefore, I believe, two
years' priority over that of Hamilton, given in the fifteenth volume of
the ' Linnean Transactions,' which it must of course supersede.
NOTE ON TIIESIUM DECURRENS, Bl, AND
T. CHINENSE, Turcz.
By H. r. Hance, Ph.D., etc.
Professor Micpiel, in his 'Prolusio Plorre Japonicse ' (Ann. Mus.
Lugd.-Bat. iii. 132), records both of the above species from Japan,
referring to the former Maximowicz's Yokohama specimens, and to the
latter those gathered by Oldham at Nagasaki, and distributed under
n. rjB'J, and adding " Superiori omnino simile, sed perigonii pars libera
brcvior, cjusque pars indivisa in flore lobos tcquans ; hi in fructu
sistunt coronulam apice vix iuHexam brevem (breviorem quam in
superiore), in illo dein partim involutam ; bracteolas (qure vero in su-
periore etiam variabiles), multo breviorcs, nuce depresso-globosa breviores,"
Both of these plants are now before me; the first sent me
from Yokohama by M. Maximowicz himself, and labelled " T. de-
currens, Bl., ?^. lovgihracteatum, A. De Cand.," the latter from Kevv,
with the above-mentioned number and Turczaninow's name with a ?
prefixed. From a very careful comparison of these, I am quite satisfied
that they are both in flower and fruit in every respect identical, and
tliat no dependence can be placed on the characters on which Miquel
relies for their distinction, which in fact do not hold good in my speci-
mens. And not only so, but they are both undistinguishable from a very
fine specimen gathered in sandy places around Jehol, for which I ara
indebted to Father Armand David, and which is unquestionably refer-
able to Turczaninow's species. Nor do I see any characters to sepa-
rate a plant sent me from Tara-suy in the island of Formosa, by the