390 68. RUBIACE.2E : P-EDERIEiE. 



Hupeh : Ichang, Nanto, and Patung (A. Henry !) ; Kwangtung : 

 Macao (Calleryl); Hongkong (Hancel Champion I) ; Luchu 

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



Eastern India, Malay peninsula and archipelago, and Japan. 



1. Hamiltonia suaveolens, Boxh. Sort. Beng. p. 15, et Fl. 

 Ind. Or. i. p. 554 ; DC. Prodr. iv. p. 462 ; Hook. f. Fl, Brit. 

 Ind. iii. p. 197. 



Spermadictyon suaveolens, Roxb. Corom. PL t. 236 ; Bot. Reg. t. 348. 



Spermadictyon azureum, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 8f Wall. ii. 

 p. 225 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1235. 



China : without locality (Fortune, 57 !). Herb. Kew. 



"Widely spread in North India, from Kashmir eastward. 



Hooker, loc. cit., suggests that this shrub may have been intro- 

 duced into China. 



1. Leptodermis oblonga, Bunge, Fnurn. Fl. Chin. Bor. p. 34 ; 

 Walp. Bep. ii. p. 488; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1882, p. 290. 



Hamiltonia oblonga, Franchet, PI. David, p. 154. 



Chihli : neighbourhood of Peking (Bunge I Williams I Bushell ! 

 Bretschneiderl Moellendorffl Tatarinow \) ; Kwangtung : along 

 the Lienchau river (B. C. Henry, hb. Hancel), without locality 

 (Ford I). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



The southern specimens may possibly represent a distinct 

 species. 



2. Leptodermis vestita, Hemsl., n. sp. 



Frutex, ut videtur, humilis, dense ramosus, ramulis foliisque 

 dense furfuraceo-hirsutis. Folia breviter petiolata, crassiuscula, 

 ovata, elliptica, vel interdum fere rotundata, usque ad If poll, 

 longa, obtusa vel rotundata, venis primariis subtus prominenti- 

 bus; stipulse inconspicuae. Flores pauci ad apices ramulorum 

 laxe aggregati ; involucrum pubescens, bilabiatum, calycem supe- 

 rans ; calycis lobi ampli, oblongo-rotundati, cibolati ; corolla cir- 

 citer semipollicaris, infundibularis, intus extusque puberula, lobis 

 induplicato-valvatis obtusis ; antherae subsessiles, supra medium 

 tubi inserts ; ovarium 5-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis, stylo 5-fido ; 

 ovula oblonga, erecta. Fructus deest. 



Kwangtung: without locality (Ford, 267 !). Herb. Kew. 



A very distinct species, differing markedly from all the others 

 in its copious indumentum. 



