370 68. BUBIACE^I : NAUCLEiE. 



Maxim, in Mel. Biol. ix. p. 270 ; A. Gray in Bot. Calif, i. p. 282 ; 

 JEmers. Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts, p. 394, cum ic. 



Cephalanthus naucleoides, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 539 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. iii. p. 24 ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1882, p. 6. 



China : without locality (Fortune, 15 !) ; Kwangsi (Mesny, 

 hb. Hance). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 



Eastern India, Malayan peninsula and archipelago, and in 

 North America, ranging from Canada to California, Texas, Mexico, 

 and the West Indies. 



Fortune's Chinese specimens of this tree resemble Mexican 

 and Texan specimens more closely than they do any of those we 

 bave seen from other parts of Asia. 



[Cephalanthus ? orientalis, Roem. et Schult. (Syst. Veg. iii. 

 p. 105), and C. montanus, Lour. (Fl. Cochinch. p. 67), are both 

 obscure plants ; and Cephalanthus chinensis, Lam. (Encycl. i. 

 p. 678, excl. syn.), syn. Anthocephalus chinensis, Hassk. (Flora, 

 1845, p. 231), is the same as Nauclea purpurea, Boxb. (vide 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 26), which is a native of the "Western 

 peninsula of India and not of China.] 



>■ 1. Adina globiflora, Salisb. Farad. Bond. t. 115 ; DC. Prodr. 

 iv. p. 349 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 146 ; Miq. in Journ. de Bot. 

 Ne'erl. i. p. 109 (errore globifera) ; Maxim, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 vi. p. 67, et in Mel. Biol. xii. p. 486 ; Henriq. in Bol. Soc. Brot. 

 iii. p. 148. 



Nauclea Adina, Smith in Rees's Cyclop. ; Lindl. in Bot. Beg. t. 895 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2613. 



Nauclea adinoides, Lindl. in Bot. Reg., in nota sub praced. 



Adina peduncularis, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 349. 



Cephalanthus pilulifera, Lam. Encycl. i. p. 678, ex Baill. Adans. xii. 

 p. 313. 



Nauclea pilulifera, Baill. Adans. xii. p. 313; Franchet, PL David. 

 p. 154. 



China : without locality (Fortjme, 119 !) ; Sheksi : southern 

 (David ex Franchet) ; Kwangtung : Lofaushan (Ford I) ; Hong- 

 kong (Champion ! Wright] Wilfordl Hance ! JJrquhartl). Mus. 

 Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



2. Adina racemosa, Miq. Cat. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. Fl. Jap. 

 p. 44; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. ix. p. 270; Franch. et Sav. Fnum. 

 PI. Jap. i. p. 206. 



