384 BOTA^'Y OF THE VOYAGE OP H.M.S. HERAL]). 
LOGANIACEiE. 
271. Gelsemium elegans, Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. vol. i. p. 90. — Medicia elegans, Gardn. — 
Leptopteris Sumairana, Blume, Scarce in Hongkongj but more abundant on the opposite coast 
(Champion!). 
272. MiTRASACME capUlaHs, Wall., De Cand. Prodr. vol. is. p. 11. — M, Malaccensis^ Wight, 
Ic. t. 1601. f. 2.—-Limnopkila campanuloides, Wall. Cat, n. 3908. Stony places towards West Point ; 
rare in Hongkong (Champion). 
273. Strychnos jjamcw/afa, Champ, in Hook. Joum. and Kew Misc. vol. v, p. 56. Woods in 
the Happy Valley (Champion!). 
274. Strychnos angustiflora, Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. vol. i. p. 102. Happy Valley (Cham- 
pion ! Hinds ! Scemann ! Hance !) . 
275. BuDBLEiA Undkyana, Fortune (?).— De Cand. 1. c. p. 446. Ravines south of Victoria Peak 
(Eyre!). 
270. G^RTNiiUA (§ Sykcaiaj 5eniA.) Uonghonyensis, Seem.j foliis obovato-oblongis obtusis in pe- 
tiolum angustatis, vaginis stipidaceis apice aristato-dentiferis, paniculse ramis (in exemplare monstrose ?) 
in folia abcuntibus, corollse lobis tube suo longioribus, antheris exsertis.— Z^i^corao/M, sp. nov. ? Benth. 
in Hook. Joum. and Ke-vv Misc. vol. iv. p. 333! Hongkong (Eyre!). 
A more perfect, though still apparently monstrous specimen of tins singular plant than was at Mr. 
Bentham'a command has come to hand, proving It to belong, as a new species, to Gcertnera. 
COMPOSITE. 
[Auctore J. Steetz.) 
Tribus I. Veesosiacej:, 
277. Vernonia (Tephrodes) cinerea, Less, in Linn. vol. iv. p. 291. n. 66, vol. vi. p. 673. n. 128. 
-De Cand. Prodr. vol. v. p. 24. n. 52. In Hongkong (Hinds, Champion, teste cl. Benth. ; Hance ! 
Seemann!). 
The specimens of this most variable species belong all to the ordinary form. 
- 278. Vernonia (Strobocalyx) soIanifoUa, ]?enth. in Lond. Journ. Eot. vol. i. p, 486, et Hook. 
Joum. Bot. and Kew Misc. vol. iv. p. 232. n. S.-F". Fortunei, C. H. Schultz, mss. in PI. Fortun. 
exsice. n. 175! Abundant on the hills (Hinds, Champion, teste cl. Benth.; Hance! Seemann! 
Fortune !) . 
The capitula are not quite developed, but there is no doubt that the specimens belong to this remark- 
able species. 
2^^!'!' I'T-^'t (LepMaploa) Cuminaiana, Benth. in Hook. Joum. and Kew Misc. vol. iv. p. 
.^32 + .* V ictona Peak (Champion, teste cl. Benth.) . 
un frl^Bir ''''""' *° t'""" *" + "' "'^'^' ^ ^"'^ '"" ^^^" ^P«^'--^' ""' have merely taken them 
up trom Bentham's enumeration.— J! Steetz. 
