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2. SciiOEPEioPsrs acuminata, nob. — Schoepfia acuminata, Wall. 

 GW.486;Z>C. Prodr.iv. 320; G. Don, Diet. iii. 432 . In JNepalia, 

 Mont. Pundus : v. s. in lib. Hook. Khasya (Dobb). 



A tree 10-12 feet high ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, obtuse at the 

 base, acuminate, palish green above, with immersed fine nerves 

 and slightly revolute margins, paler beneath, with prominent mid- 

 rib and slightly prominulent nerves ascendingly divaricate, with 

 subimmersed reticulated veins, 3 in. long, 9 lines broad, on 

 slender curving petioles 3 lines long ; raceme axillary, 10 lines 

 long, on a slender peduncle, bearing a little above its base about 

 10 alternate or subopposite flowers on very slender pedicels In- 

 line long ; calycle and calyx ^ line long ; corolla in bud 3^ lines 

 long, tube 1 line broad ; rest as in the generic character. 



3. S. chinensis, nob. — Schoepfia chinensis, Gardn. Sf Champ. 

 Kew Jonrn. Dot. i. 308, iii. 328; Whip. Ann. i. 181. In Hong 

 Kong : vix vidi in herb. Hook. 



A straggling branched tree ; branches terete, striate, sub- 

 flexuous, whitish, glabrous, brittle ; leaves lanceolate-oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute at the base, acuminate, penninerved, 2-i— 3 

 in. long, 10-15 lines broad, on margined petioles 2-3 lines long ; 

 racemes solitary in the axils, 6-9 lines long, 2-4-flowered ; 

 flowers sessile, yellow or whitish, odoriferous ; calycle and calyx A 

 line long ; corolla 5 lines long, tube pentagonal, narrowish, 5 

 lines long; segments 5, acuminate, 2| lines long ; drupe oblong, 

 obtuse at both ends, 5-7 lines long. 



A species said to differ from S. frarjrans in its leaves glossy 

 beneath (not on both sides), in its fruit as large as a cherry (not 

 the size of a field-bean). 



4. S. jasminodoea, nob. ; Schoepfia jasminodora, Sieb. Sf Zuccar. 

 in Abh. wiath.-phys. CI. 31iinch. Akad. Bd. iv. 8, Abth. iii. 

 p. 135, no. 457 ; Blwne, Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. p. 175 ; Walp. Ann. 

 i. 960. In Japouia : non vidi. 



Branches terete, subflexuous ; leaves ovate, rounded at the 

 base, subobliquely acuminate and recurved, more rarely lanceolate- 

 ovate, 1 2 _ 2 ? r in. long, 10-15 lines broad, on petioles 3 lines long ; 

 racemes axillary ; peduncle slender, 1 in. long, bearing above 3-5 

 subsessile flow r ers ; calycle and calyx short, 3-5-dentate ; corolla 

 tubular, tube cylindrical ; segments 4, subdeltoid, acute. 



