94 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
Very near, if not the same as, A. Championi, Benth. (Lettsomia 
Championi, Benth. et Hook. f.), a native of Hongkong. 
Argyreia pallida, Choisy; DO. Prodr. ix. p. 330.—Meiktila. 
Burma. 
A handsome climber, common in the forests. 
This and the next are not taken up in the * Flora of British 
India,’ and it was not previously represented in the Kew 
Herbarium. 
Blinkworthia lycioides, Choisy, Conv. Orient. p. 48, t. 9, 
et in DC. Prodr. ix. p. 354. (Plate XV.).—Meiktila. A 
common bush in the dry forests, flowering in the rainy season, 
when it is very conspicuous from its numerous white wax-like 
flowers. 
This geuus was founded upon very imperfect material, collected 
by Wallich on the Irrawadi. The present specimens are com- 
plete, with the exception of ripe fruit, which Choisy describes as 
“ bacca monosperma.” The fruit is really baccate; but it is 
certainly sometimes 4-seeded. Assuming the fruit to be baccate, 
Blinkworthia differs from Argyreia and Lettsomia in having 
solitary flowers; from Rivea in having a 2-celled ovary ; and 
from all three of these genera in not being of twining habit. 
The generic character, as given in Bentham and Hookers 
‘Genera Plantarum’ (ii. p. 869), should be modified as follows :— 
Sepala ovali-oblonga vel fere orbicularia, subæqualia, sub 
fructu aucta, indurata, lignescentia. Corolla campanulata, apice 
integra, cireiter 9 lineas longa. Stamina inclusa, æqualia, prope 
basin corollæ affixa, filamentis basi dilatatis granulatis. Discus 
cylindricus, ovarium includens. Ovarium 2-loculare, loculis 2- 
ovulatis ; stylus filiformis, inclusus, stigmate 2-globoso. Fructus 
baccatus.—Frutex erectus, 3—4 ped. altus, ramis gracilibus elon- 
gatis; folia parva, oblonga, elliptica, subtus parce strigosa, 
pallida. Flores axillares, solitarii, involucrati, pedunculis quam 
folia brevioribus ; involucri bracteæ 2-4 (sæpissime 4), crassius- 
culæ, obovato-oblongæ, quam sepala breviores. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XV, 
Branches of Blinkworthia lycioides, Choisy, natural size. 
Fig. 1, corolla laid open ; 2, pistil. Enlarged. 
