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RHODOLEIA CHAMPIONI. 
Capt. Champion's Rhodoleia. 
Nat. Ord. HAMAMELIDE®.—DEcANDRIA DIGYNTA. 
Gen. Char. Ruopo.eta, Champion, MS. Calyx minutus, truncatus, cum 
basi ovarii adnatus, demum accrescens, persistens. Corolla nulla. Stamina 
10, libera, calyci inserta ? Ovarium basi pluriglandulosum, biloculare, pluriovula- 
tum. Styli duo, longissimi, decidui. Stigma obtusum. Capsula bilocularis, 
loculis polyspermis. Semina oblique subtriangularia, compressa,—Arbor humilis 
Chinensis. Folia alterna, sempervirentia, elliptico-ovata, obtusa, petiolata. Flores 
capitati, in singulo capitelo 5, basi coadunati, involucro duplici florem perpulchrum 
emulante circumdati : ext. e foliolis imbricatis sericeis fuscis : int. e foliolis nume- 
rosis coloratis (roseis). Fructus compositus e capsulis 5, radiatim dispositi. 
RHODOLEIA Championi. 
Ruoporsta. Champ. MS. with a drawing. 
China has already afforded many beautiful plants to the 
gardens of the curious in Europe, and our present relationship 
with the Celestial Empire will doubtless be the means of the 
introduction of many more. We have lately been gratified by 
receiving from Hong-Kong, both from Captain Champion and 
Mr. Braine, seeds, and, from the former gentleman, a dried 
flower and leaf, together with a drawing by a Chinese artist, of 
a perfectly new and most beautiful plant, which, after as accurate 
an inspection as our materials will allow, we do not hesitate to 
refer to Hamamelidee. All we know (and we desire to apologize 
for the deficiencies) we lay before the public as speedily as 
possible. Better specimens will doubtless, by and by, reach 
us ; and, though our seeds have not yet germinated, we do not 
yet despair of them. Captain Champion, writing from Hong- 
Kong, December 1849, says, “This is admitted by all here to 
be the handsomest of Hong-Kong flowering trees, and new to 
Europeans till I discovered it in February last. It is a small 
tree, but would probably, like the Camellia, blossom as a shrub 
profusely, each branch bearing six to eight flowers. Flowers 
(capitula) at its extremity ; and these two inches and a half in 
APRIL Ist, 1850. 
