106 DR. H. F. HANCE'8 SUPPLEMENT TO 
The genus Stylocoryne, Cav., is identical with Randia, L., not 
with Webera, Schreb. 
*Ixora Pavetta, Roxb.; Benth. Fl. Austr. ii. 414. (=Pavetta indica, 
Linn.; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 157.) 
It seems impossible to keep Pavetta apart from Tvora; and 
their junction, proposed by various writers, is now acquiesced in 
by Mr. Bentham. Miquel, who unites the two, prefers the name 
Pavetta, assigning as a reasou (Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 263) that it is 
* nomen certioribus speciebus stabilitum et perfectioris quasi or- 
ganisationis antistes "—which is evidently a mere fancy. But Asa 
Gray well observes (‘ Notes upon some Rubiacew, 7) that Tvora 
ought to be retained, “ not only because it had been preferred 
by Lamarck [and he might have added Roxburgh], but also 
because, as a Linnean genus, it is ten years older than Pavetta, 
appearing in the first edition of the * Genera Plantarum." ”? 
*Ixora stricta, Roxb., is, I think, a doubtful native. 
Mr. Fortune, in his ‘Narrative of Two Visits to the Tea 
Countries of China, no doubt alluding to this species, speaks of 
“ Trora coccinea flowering in profusion in the clefts of the rocks” 
at Hongkong; but this is a pure flight of imagination. The 
form found at East Point has pink blossoms; but the wild plant, 
which is singularly abundant at Whampoa and many other 
places near Canton, has the flowers invariably of a bright flame- 
colour, or deep orange verging on scarlet. Hence I suspect 
that the Hongkong plant, which is quite local, growing only be- 
hind a single temple, is an introduction. 
*Eupatorium Wallichii, DC. ? 
Specimens of this from Whampoa (which are precisely similar 
to Harland’s Hongkong ones) are, Mr. Bentham wrote me some 
years ago, different from the true plant of DeCandolle (and they 
look so when compared with a Khasia specimen of Hooker and 
Thomson’s, which has a denser inflorescence and less obtuse 
involucral bracts); and he thinks the South-Chinese plant nearest 
E. longicaule, DC., the involucral bracts of which, however, are 
much broader. The leaves of our species are ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate and crenato-serrate, usually rounded, but sometimes 
cuneately narrowed at the base. Cfr. Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. 
Bat. ii. 167, who refers the Indian plant to E. japonicum, Thunb. 
*Boltonia indica, Benth. 
This occurs in two well-marked forms, which I have thus 
