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Unona chinensis, DC. Syst, i. p. 495, et Prodr. i. p. 91. 



Desmos chinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 352. 



Unona Lessertiana, Dun. Monogr. Anon. p. 107, t. 26. 



Kwangtttng : Canton (Loureiro !), Macao (Vachell !) ; Pakhoi 

 (Play fair !) ; Hongkong : common, and in all collections. Mus. 

 Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



The Himalayas to Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago. 



\Cananga odorata, Hook. f. et Thorns. (JJvaria odorata, Lam.) 

 is recorded from China by Lamark, De Candolle, and others ; but 

 there are no Chinese specimens in the London herbaria.] 



1. Polyalthia suberosa, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 25 ; 

 HooTc.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 65, 



Uvaria suberosa, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 34, et Fl. Ind. ii. p. 467. 



Guatteria suberosa, Dun. Monogr. Anon. p. 128, et in DC. Prodr. i. 

 p. 93. 



Kwangtung : Pakhoi (Play fair !). Herb. Kew. 



Bengal to Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago. 



1. Melodorum glancescens, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 112. 

 Hongkong: Victoria Peak, Little Hongkong, and Happy 



Valley woods {Ford !) . Herb. Kew. 



2. Melodorum Oldhami, Remsl., n. sp. 



Bamuli ultimi graciles, ferrugineo-pubescentes, vetustiores 

 nigrescentes, glabrescentes, rugulosi. Folia petiolata, vix co- 

 riacea, oblonga, 2J-5 poll, longa, 1-1| poll, lata, utrinque obtusa 

 vel rotundata, supra secus costam impressam primum hirsutula, 

 cito omnino glabrescentia, infra ferrugineo-puberula, tardius 

 glabrescentia, venis lateralibus primariis 12-15-jugis promi- 

 nentibus, venis ultimis minute reticularis ; petiolus crassiusculus, 

 primum ferrugineo-pubescens, deinde glabrescens, nigrescens, 

 transverse rugulosus. Flores ut videtur parvi (alabastra vix 

 diametro 3 lineas tantum adsunt), oppositifolii, solitarii vel 2-3 

 aggregati, ferrugineo-pubescentes, breviter pedicellati ,• sepala 

 deltoidea; petala crassa nondum bene evoluta; stamina in- 

 definita; ovaria circiter 20, pilosa, ovulis 6 vel 8 ? Carpella 

 ferrugineo-puberula, subglobosa, diametro usque ad 9 lineas, 

 breviter stipitata ; semina interdum minime 3 vel 4, discoidea, 

 diametro circiter lineas 5. 



Formosa (Oldham, 5/1 !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



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