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2. Eurya distichophylla, Hemsl., n. sp. 



Hamuli ultimi graciles, primum sericeo-villosi. Folia disticha, 

 conferta, subsessilia, subcoriacea, ovato-oblonga vel ovato-lanceo- 

 lata, 1-1 1 poll, longa, basi rotundata saepiusque leviter inaequalia, 

 apice obtusa, margiue minutissime crenulata, supra glabra, nitida, 

 subtus strigillosa, venis utrinque immersis. Flores ( d tantura 

 visi) subsessiles, pauci ad axillas foliorum congesti, 2-3 lineas 

 diametro ; sepala inaequalia, ovata, obtusa, extus pilosula ; petala 

 obovato-oblonga, sepalis triplo longiora, glabra, basi cohaarentia; 

 stamina circiter 15, uniseriata, omnino glabra, petalis breviora, 

 filamentis filiformibus, antheris uadulatis filamentis aequilongis ; 

 pistilli rudiinentutn conic um, apice barbatum. 



Fokien: Amoy (Swinhoel). Herb. Kew. 



This species is allied to a small hairy Indian form of the genus 

 referred to E. acuminata ; but it seems sufficiently distinct in the 

 characters described above. 



3. Eurya japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 191, t. 25 ; DC. Prodr. 

 i. p. 525 ; Benth. Fl. Rongk. p. 28 ; Dyer in Rook.f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. i. p. 284. 



Formosa: Keelung (Oldham, 32 ! Fordl); Kwangtung (Tatel); 

 Hongkong (Championl Wilfordl Seemannl); Luchu Aechi- 

 pelago (Wright I). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Common in the mountains of North and South India to 

 Ceylon, and in the Eastern Peninsula eastward to the Fijis and 

 Japan. 



4. Eurya Macartneyi, Champ), in Rook. Kew Journ. Bot. in. 

 p. 307 ; Walp. Ann. iv. p. 347 ; Benth. Fl. Rongk. p. 28 ; Seem. 

 Bot. Voy. * Herald,' p. 366, t. 74. 



Hongkong (Champion* Wright \ Wilfordl Fordl Lamont .). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



There are also specimens collected by Lord Macartney's expe- 

 dition and by Fortune which are not localized. 



1. Pentaphylax euryoides, Gardn. et Champ, in Rook. Kew 

 Journ. Bot. i. p. 245; Champ, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. p. 114, 

 t. 12; Benth. Fl. Rongk. p. 28; Seem. Bot. Voy. 'Herald, 

 p. 367. 



Hongkong (Champion] Wright I Wilfordl Seemannl Ford. 

 Lamont !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



