104 DR. H. F. HANCE'8 SUPPLEMENT TO 
blossoms disposed in small axillary 3-G-flowered clusters, the 
adoption of Mr. Bentham's specific name would involve an ab- 
surd contradiction of fact. I therefore propose to call the species 
after its discoverer, the late Mr. R. B. Hinds, surgeon of H.M.S. 
‘Sulphur,’ the first collector of plants in the island. The cha- 
racter assigned by Dr. Hooker in the ‘Genera Plantarum’ to 
the inflorescence of this genus requires amendment, in order to 
include the present species. 
*Zehneria umbellata, Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 125; Benth. and Hook.f. 
Gen.Plant.i. 830. (=Karivia umbellata, Arn., Benth. Fl. Hongk. 124.) 
17. Melothria indica, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. ed. Willd. i. 43; Naud. in 
Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. ser. 4, xvi. 169, t. 2. (—Echmandra indica, 
Arn.; M. J. Roem. Syn. Peponif. 32.) 
On hill-sides, scrambling amongst grass, and in waste places, 
climbing over thickets. Found also on the Indian continent, 
in Ceylon, Cochinchina, the Chinese mainland, and the Moluccas. 
*Rhynchocarpa odorata, Hook. f. in Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
i. 831. (=Echmandra odorata, Hook. f. and Thoms.; Benth. Fl. 
Hongk. 124.) 
18. Opuntia. Dillenii, Haw.; W. and Ann. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 363; 
Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. 162; Wight, Illustr. ii. t. 114. 
In thickets, among rocks by the sea, at Sheko; flowering in 
December. Found by the late Dr. Harland and myself. Spread 
over many parts of Southern Asia; but no doubt a native ori- 
ginally of tropical America. 
19. Acanthopanax aculeata t, Seem. Journ. Bot. v. 238; Benth, and 
Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 939. 
t Miquel and Seemann make Panax neuter; Mr. Bentham made it feminine 
in the *Flora Hongkongensis, but in the * Genera' and the *Flora Austra- 
liensis' masculine; and Dr. F. v. Mueller observes (Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. iv. 
122), * Panacis genus apud Plinium est generis masculini.” It would perhaps 
be difficult to prove tbis. Panaces is certainly neuter in Pliny. * Panaces..:* 
diis inventoribus adscriptum " (Hist. Nat. xxv. 11) ; and, unless I am mistaken, 
Panax nowhere occurs in Pliny in such a connexion as to show its gender. He 
in one place (xxvi. 58) has the words “ panace poto ;” but the first may just as 
well be the ablative of panaces as of panaz, and it is impossible to tell whether 
the adjective be masculine or neuter. On the other hand, both the names of 
plants, and substantives of the third declension ending in ax are, as a rule, fe- 
minine. Forcellini, however, makes the word masculine; but Liddell and 
Scott mark zavaég as doubtfully so. 
[Panax is feminine in Pliny: “ Aliqui et hane panacem heracleon, alii side- 
ritim et apud nos millefolium vocant, cubitali scapo, ramosam, minutioribus 
quam feniculi foliis vestitam ab imo.”—Hist, Nat. xxv, cap. v. s. 19, Vol. iv. P 
117, Sillig's edition.—Serc, L. S.] 
