38. CELASTBINEJ3. 125 



2. Elasodendron glaucum, Pers. Syn. PI. i. p. 241 ; Hook, et Am. 

 Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 176. 



This common Indian and Malayan species is recorded from 

 China by Hooker and Arnott without any locality. 



1. Tripterygium Wilfordii, Hook.f. in Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. 

 Plant, i. p. 368 ; Regel, Gartenfl. 1869, p. 105, t. 612 ; Maxim, 

 in Mel. Biol. xi. p. 206. 



Tripterygium Bullockii, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 259. 



Formosa: on banks of the river Sanar (Wilfordl), Tamsui 

 (Oldham, 81/1 !) ; Hunan : on low hills along the river Siang 

 (Bullock ex Hance) ; Coeea : Soul mountains (Carles !). Mus. 

 Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Prom the characters given by Hance, which we find in the 

 original, there is no doubt that his is the same species. 



1. Hippocratea obtusifolia, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. p. 170; DC. 

 Prodr. i. p. 569 ; Benth. Fl. Rongk. p. 62. 



Hongkong (Champion I Ford I). Herb. Kew. 



Widely dispersed in Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



\_Salacia ? chinensis, Linn. f. Mant. p. 293, is an obscure plant, 

 and without dissecting one of the three flower-buds one cannot 

 say whether it belongs to the Order ; but it certainly is not 

 the same as Salacia cochinchinensis, Lour, (vide DC. Prodr. i. 

 p. 571), the type of which is in the British Museum, for the latter 

 has strictly opposite leaves. The note in the Banksian herbarium 

 referred to by De Candolle is in the handwriting of Salisbury, 

 and runs thus : " The specimen in Linne's herbarium is so bad that 

 it is impossible to be certain if this (i. e. Loureiro's plant) is the 

 same species, but I see nothing against it."] 



39. KHAMJNACEJE. 



1. Ventilago leiocarpa, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. p. 77 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Rongk. p. 67; Laws, in Rook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 

 p. 631, pro parte. 



Ventilago maderaspatana, Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. p. 42, non 

 Gcertn. 



Hongkong (Championl Wrightl Urquhartl Wilfordl Lamont !). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



As limited by Bentham, this species also inhabits Malacca and 

 Western Tropical Africa, and it is still further extended by 

 Lawson ; but a thorough revision of all the material would 



