AraliucecB.] CHINA. 189 



Ord. XXXIX. FICOIDEvE. Juss. 



1. Mesembryanthemum cordifolium. Linn. — De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 449. PI. Grass, 

 t. 102. 



Most probably cultivated. 



1. Tetragonia expansa. Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 178. De Cand. PL Grass, t. 114. Prodr. 

 v. 3. p. 452. 



Ord. XL. SAXIFRAGES. Juss. 

 Trib. Escallonie;e. De Cand. 



1. Itea Chinensis ; foliis elliptico-oblongis acutiusculis denticulatis, racemis spiciformibus 

 axillaribus solitariis binisve folium subasquantibus. (Tab. XXXIX.) 



Frutex? glaber. Rami Iignosi, teretes. Folia alterna, cxstipulata, breviter petiolata, elliptico-oblonga, 

 vix subiter obtuse attenuata, margine supra medium denticulato-serrata, dentieulis versus apicem frequenti- 

 oribus, infra medium integerrima, coriacea, glabra, pennlnervia, nervis obliquis distantibus sursum prope 

 marginem curvatis, venosa, venis transversalibus plurimis, 3 uncias longa vix ] J lata. Petioli semiunciam 

 longi, rugulosi. Racemi axillares, solitarii binive, versus apice ramorum conferti, multiflori, ad basin fere 

 usque floriferi folio subsequantes : rachi angulata. Flores albi, vix approximati; pedicelli solitarii, bini, 

 ternive, flores subsequantes, fere 1J lineas longi, filiformes, basi bracteola parva subulata instructi. Calyx 

 5-partitus; segmentis subulatis; sinubus obtusis. Petala 5, summo calycis tubo inserta, ejusque lobis 

 alterna iisque duplo fere longiora, liueari-lanceolata, medio nervo fusco longitudinali notata. Stamina 5 

 petalis alterna, et iis longiora : antherm cordato-ovat*, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Pislillum 

 oblongum, attenuatum, bipartibile, ad basin glandula annulari crassa cinctum. Germen pubescens, liberum, 

 2-loculare, e carpellis duobus margine introflexis et placentiferis conflatmn ; ovitla plurima suspensa. Stylus 

 simplex; stigma capitatum, sulco medio bilobum. Fructus .... 



We trust there can be no doubt of this being a true species of Itea. In some points it approaches to 

 /. macrophylla, Wall, in Roxb. and Wall. Fl. Ind. 2. p. 419; but that is described with a half inferior germen, 

 surrounded by an obscurely lobed concave fleshy disc, and has lately been referred, with doubt, to Wallich's 

 new and undescribed genus, Kurrimia, among the Celastrineat. The present does not appear to be rare at 

 Canton, but we do not find it in Loureiro's Flora Cochinchensis. Mr. Lindley, some years ago, according 

 to a specimen in Dr. Hooker's Herbarium, considered it as perhaps a species of Astranthus, but this opinion 

 was probably given more from the general habit of the plant, than from an examination of the flowers. 

 Itea Rosmarinus, Roem. and Schult., or Cedrela Rosmarinus, Lour., has surely nothing to do with this genus. 



Tab. XXXIX. Itea Chinensis. Fig. 1, Flower ; Jig. 2, Stamen ; fig. 3, Petal ; fig. 4, Pistil, with its anuular 

 gland : — magnified. 



Ord. XLI. UMBELLIFERS. Juss. 

 1. Torilis Japonica ; caule glabriusculo tereti ramoso, foliis pubescentibus bipinnatisectis, 

 segmentis oblongis pinnatifidis, umbellis pedunculatis axillaribus et terminalibus 5-7-radiatis, 

 involucre utroque oligophyllo brevi-subulato, mericarpiis oblongis, setis rigidis apice un- 



cinatis. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 219 T. scabra. De Cand. I. c— Caucalis Japonica. 



Hoult. — C. orientalis. Lour.? (non Linn.) — Chaerophyllum scabruni. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 119. 



Ord. XLII. ARALIACES. Juss. 

 1. Paratropia Cantoniensis ; caule arborescente, foliis Ionge petiolatis digitatis, foliolis 5-9 

 ellipticis basi acutiusculis apice subiter brevi-acuminatis subcoriaceis glabris, racemo terminali 



