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FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 259 
nentibus, petiolo apice incrassato superne pubescente inferne glabro, 
racemo fcemineo petiolo breviore paucifloro. 
In a ravine of Mount Victoria. 
The leaves are 14 inch long, 10-11 lines broad, on a petiole of 4 or 
5 lines. The berry is fleshy, about + an inch in diameter. The speci- 
men is in fruit only, but the plant evidently belongs to the above 
genus, the type of which is the Cocculus cuspidatus, Wall. (See Ann. 
Nat. Hist. N.S. v. 7. p. 36.) 
3. Nephroica pubinervis, Miers, sp. n.; ramulis striatulis retrorsum 
vh pubescentibus, foliis oblongis a basi sursum angustioribus apice ob- 
tusiuseulis mucronatis reticulatis 3-nervibus cum nervis 2 alteris 
marginalibus adjectis supra nitidulis, utrinque in nervis venis promi- 
nulis petioloque molliter pilosis, racemulo axillari paniculato pauci- 
floro petiolo sublongiore, pedunculo bracteisque pubescentibus, pedi- : 
cellis floribusque glabris. 
Found with the preceding, in a ravine of Mount Victoria. 
Intermediate, as a species, between N. ovalifolia (Cocculus, DC.) 
and N. cynanchoides (Cocculus, Presl). Its leaves are 2-24 inches long 
and 1-14 inch broad, on a petiole 5—6 lines in length; the younger 
branches are flóriferous, and from each axil there springs a single 
raceme out of a woolly tuft, the peduncles being 3 lines, the pedicels 1 
or 2 lines in length. 
PAPAVERACEJE. 
1. Argemone Mexicana, Linn. 
On the sea-shore and waste places, as in other parts of the warmer 
regions of both the old and the new world. 
CRUCIFERJE. ee 
1. Cardamine hirsuta, Linn. The only representative of this large — 
family, and itself naturalized only as a garden-weed. 
CaPPARIDEZ. 
1. Capparis membranacea, Gard. et Champ. Kew Journ. Bot. vol. i. 
. 241. 
: Victoria Peak and Happy Valley woods. Flowers in April and May. 
One specimen has much narrower leaves, cuneate at the base, and long 
acuminated, but is apparently a mere variety produced by station. 
