atmosphere about February and March have set in. Its lilac blossoms in mass 
look well at a distance, but the shrub, being then nearly destitute of leaves, has 
not on near approach the gay appearance which the scarlet-flowered 4. Jedice 
presents. 
On the Black Mountains grows a third species, new to Hong-Kong, but pre- 
viously described by Mr. Fortune, from more northern China—the 
3. A. ovata, of Dr. Lindley, I believe: it there flowers in March with 4. In- 
dica and A. squamata. It has almost rotate flowers, white with dark purple 
specks on the centre and adjoining lobes. 
4, Azalea, sp. nov., myrtifolia (quite distinct from 4. ovata). A shrub 
4—5 feet high, much branched; twigs longer than in 4. syuamata, and shorter 
than in 4. Indica, quite smooth, cinereous, and striated with silver or pink- 
brown. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the extremities of the branchlets, 
short-petioled, from ovate to oblong or slightly rhomboid (largest 1 inch 
long by 6 lines broad), usually slightly emarginate at apex, with the midrib often 
prolonged into an acumen, quite smooth, bright green above, glaucous or pale 
beneath, and grossly reticulately veined. Flowers terminal, solitary or in pairs, 
from an elongate, ovate whorl of yellowish, or slightly glutinous, permanent 
scales; these scales ovate, smooth. Flowers in bud campanulate. Corolla, when 
expanded, 1 inch 2 lines to 14 inch in diameter, almost rotate, and cleft to near 
the base. Segments five, oblong, two upper slightly largest, pure white, the 
three lower with dark violet specks. Stamens five. Filaments hairy. Anthers 
opening by terminal pores. Style long, curved. Stigma clavate and ten-lobed 
at the apex. Calyx and pedicel pinkish, glutinous, puberulous, the former small. 
Capsule five-celled, above three lines in length, globosely ovate. 
Has. Black Mountain, Hong-Kong, on rocks with .4. sguamata (Lind. !) and 
A. Indica (1..), March 1849, when it was first seen by Lieut.-Col. Eyre of the 
Royal Artillery. 
1. Enkyanthus reticulatus is a beautiful shrub, and its branches, detached from 
the stem, continue in blossom for a long period if placed in water., It blooms 
about Christmas, and is much used by the Chinese for ornamenting their dwell- 
-Ing-houses. 
The only remaining plants of the family to be noticed are an arboreous 
1. Vaccinium, with white flowers, of common occurrence in the woods of the 
Happy Valley. : 
2. Vaccinium, sp. nov. near V. bracteatum (Thunb., a Japanese species), 
but differing in the racemes being shorter (1 to 1} inch long) and not secund. 
Racemes axillary, shorter*than the glabrous, acute, serrated leaves ; bracteas lan- 
ceolate, bristle-serrated; pedicels furnished with one or two alternate, minute, awl- 
shaped bracteoles. Native of Hong-Kong, growing to a small tree. Flowers 
in July and August, and fruit in September. Branches smooth, angular while 
young. Corollas slightly bell-shaped, nearly cylindrical, white. Leaves evergreen. 
A pretty species. Calyx five-toothed. Limb of corolla with five short reflexed 
segments, scarce one-tenth part of the tube. Anthers of the ten stamens horned, 
but not spurred. Style the length of the corolla, linear. Berry five-cclled, many- 
seeded, blue when ripe. 
J. G. CHAMPION. 
Portsmouth, August 1851. 
