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rum foliis longiores, tenues, infra medium bibracteolati. Flores iis 
V. hirte minores, violacei. Calycis laciniæ 2 lin. longs, basi inæ- 
qualiter appendiculato-productæ, appendicibus angustis, majoribus 
sepe lineam longis. Petala 5 lin. longa. Calcar inferiorum 2 lin. 
In speciminibus flores fertiles apetalos ferentibus folia majora, longius 
petiolata, pedunculi petiolis breviores. Calyces parvi, laciniis an- 
gustis basi longiuscule appendieulatis. Ovarium ovoideum, stylo 
uncinato acuminatum. Capsula elliptico-trigona. 
Gathered probably on Mount Parker, but mixed up with specimens 
of P. Parkeri, which abounds there; also on the opposite hill of the 
China coast. The late Dr. Gardner considered this to be Blume's 
V. inconspicua, said to have been introduced into the Buitenzorg garden 
from China. It is evidently nearly allied, and Blume's character would 
agree well with the apetalous state of our plant, but that he says, 
“ staminibus inappendiculatis," whereas I find them appendiculate in 
the petaliferous flowers, and deficient in the apetalous ones. 
All the above species, like most others of the same groupe in Europe 
and North America, appear to bear, in summer, minute apetalous yet 
fertile flowers. 
POLYGALACEZÆ. 
1. Salomonia Cantonensis, Lour.— DC. Prod. vol. i. p. 334. 
In marshy fields, abounding near the Albany Barracks. Flowers in 
summer. 
2. Polygala arillata, Hamilt.—Wight et Arn. Prod. vol. i. p. 39. 
Very rare. A shrub on Mount Gough, and another on Mount 
Victoria (since destroyed by the Chinese), were all that had been seen. 
3. Polygala glomerata, Lour., as described by De Candolle (Prod. 
vol. i. p. 326), who saw Loureiro's specimen, although it scarcely agrees 
with Loureiro's own character. It is the same as the one since de- 
scribed by Blume under the name of P. densiffora, and is perhaps a 
mere variety of the common East Indian P. arvensis. 
Gathered on Mount Victoria. 
4. Polygala Loureiri,Gardn. et Champ. Kew Journ. Bot. vol. i. p.242. 
On Mount Victoria. 
DROSERACÉEÆ. 
1. Drosera Loureiri, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 167. t. 81. 
Common in all the marshes of Hong-Kong. 
