100 DR. H. F. HANCE'S SUPPLEMENT TO 
All the specimens from Hongkong and Southern China I have 
examined belong to this, variously regarded as a species, or asa 
subspecies of the old C. hirsuta, Linn., by modern writers. I should 
judge them distinct ; but I speak with the greatest diffidence, and 
Mr. H. C. Watson (Compend. Cyb. Brit. 483) appears to think 
differently. 
5. Capparis sciaphila, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. ser. 5, v. 206. 
In a shady wood at Hongkong; gathered by me in August 
1861. Found, as I learn from Mr. Bentham, in South China by 
Millett, but not known from elsewhere. 
6. Scolopia acuminata, Clos in Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. ser. 4, viii. 
251. (=:Phoberos s:evus, Hance in Walp. Ann. Bot. Syst. iii. 825.) 
This species, which occurs also in Ceylon, and probably in 1 
Indian peninsula, is confounded in the ‘ Flora Hongkongensis 
with S. chinensis, Clos, from which, however, it is most ungues- 
tionably quite distinct, as I believe Mr. Bentham now fully 
acknowledges. Cfr. my ‘ Note sur deux espèces du genre Sco- 
lopia’ (Ann. Se. Nat. Par. ser. 4, xviii. 214). Though sevus 15 
the oldest specific name (and my own), I do not take it up, 
because I think it a duty to protest against Art. 57 of the * Lots 
dela nomenclature botanique’ adopted by the Paris International 
Botanical Congress of 1867, as unreasonable, arbitrary, and pro- 
ductive of a wholly uncalled-for addition to the already over: 
whelming synonymy of the science. 
7. Xylosma senticosum, Hance in Seem. Journ. Bot. vi. 328. 
Once only gathered by me, in August 1861, by the side of the 
road leading up to Victoria Peak; and not hitherto found else 
where. 
*Waltheria indica, Linn.; W. and Arn. Prod. FI. Penins. i. 67. (= 
W. americana, Linn. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 38.) 
The word India being applied in Linnzeus’s time not only to the 
Caribbean islands, but to the continent of South America, the 
name I adopt is preferable for so widely diffused a plant; neither 
has priority. 
8, Grewia. 
About seventeen years ago T found, in the neighbourhood of 
Tai tam tuk, a small white-flowered species of this genus, very 
different from any known to me. Unfortunately it was mislaid 
after collection, and 1 never had any opportunity to examine 1 
and determine its affinities. 
*Triumfetta rhomboidea, Jacg.; Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Aft: * 
257. (=T. angulata, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 41, but not of Lam.) 
