66 MR. W. J. TUTCHER ON NEW SPECIES 
as well as on Mt. Gough, flowering in April, and previously on 
Tai-mo-shan in the New Territory, in fruit. 
It is named out of eompliment to Colonel Birdwood, 110th 
Mahratta Light Infantry, an enthusiastie botanist, who has 
contributed many specimens to the Hongkong Botanic 
Garden. 
ARISTOLOCHIA Tawarresii, Hook. f. 
This plant is figured in the * Botanical Magazine’ under 
t. 4918, and is stated to bea native of Ceylon. Under t. 5295 
in the same work this habitat is said to be wrong, and under 
t. 5908 Old Calabar is given as the native place of the species. 
Many years ago Mr. Ford collected the plant in Hongkong, 
but no specimens can be found at Kew from that place, 
although there are specimens in the Herbarium of the Hong- 
kong Botanic Gardens collected by Mr. Ford. Last year 
(1903) I found several specimens growing under Bamboos in a 
wood on the south side of Wong-nei-cheong village, and later 
on many other plants were found growing in crevices of the 
almost perpendicular cliffs of the Black Mountain, a place 
whieh is still likely to yield additions to the flora of the island, 
as several have been made from that district during the last year 
or so. (Herb. Hongkong Bot. Gard. n. 979.) 
BnipELIA BALANS#, Tutcher, n. sp. 
Arbor 15-20-pedalis; caudex spinosus, spinis 1-143 poll. 
longis, crassis. Folia 3—4 poll. longa, oblonga, acuminata, acuta, 
leviter revoluta, basi attenuata, supra glabra, subtus glauca, 
venis primariis lateralibus $-10; petioli 4 poll. longi. Flores 
9 parvi, pedicellati, dense glomerati, in axillis foliorum dis- 
positi, pedicellis crassis, rugulosis, 1 lin. longis, calycis lobis 
deltoideis extus intusque pubescentibus, l lin. longis. Flores 
d non visi. Fructus ovoideus, purpureo-niger, fere 3 poll. 
longus. (Herb. Hongkong Bot. Gard. n. 974.) 
This plant has been confused in the Hongkong Herbarium 
with Bridelia tomentosa, Blume, from which it is quite different 
in foliage and fruit. Balansa found the plant in Tonkin and his 
specimens in the Kew Herbarium bear the numbers 4122, 4123, 
and 4124. 
In Hongkong I know of only two trees, one in the Happy 
