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6. Polyspora azillaris, Sweet. 
Common all over the island, and constitutes much of its wood. 
T. Schima superba, Gardn. et Champ. Kew Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 246. 
À very rare tree in Hong-Kong, except in the woods on Little Hong- 
Kong, near the top of the slopes, where it grows abundantly. Its 
bunches of large white flowers, in May, resemble, at a distance, those 
of Mesua. Fruit from October to December. 
8. Pentaphylax euryoides, Gard. et Champ. in Kew Journ. Bot. vol. i. 
p. 244. 
An under-tree of great beauty when in flower, and exceedingly 
common in the Hong-Kong woods. The flowers are small and white, 
and the pseudo-racemes, growing in a pyramidal shape, owing to the 
lower flowers expanding first, have a very peculiar effect. The seed 
is dry, its coating membranaceous, embryo conduplicate, radicle terete, 
cotyledons elongate semicylindrie. (J. G. Champ.) 
9. Camellia Japonica, Linn. 
Of this, two trees growing wild in Hong-Kong were discovered by 
Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre, of the Royal Artillery, and Mr. J. Bowring 
now mentions a third as having been found in the Happy Valley woods. 
It is a moderate-sized, smooth-barked tree, loaded in October with 
single pink flowers. The fruit is smooth and much smaller than in the 
C. spectabilis, being rather above an inch in diameter. The petals, 
about seven, adhere at the base in a ring, and soon fall off. The sepals 
are slightly silky, and the leaves more elongated than in most culti- 
vated varieties. (J. G. Champ.) 
10. Camellia salicifolia, Champ., sp. n.; arbuscula, ramulis pubes- 
centibus flexuosis, foliis subsessilibus elongato-ovatis acuminatis 
serratis pubescentibus, floribus parvulis albis, sepalis acuminatis 
pubescentibus, capsulis glabris parvis rostratis 1-3-spermis. 
Woods in Hong-Kong. This and the two following new species are 
more fully described in the above-mentioned paper. (J. G. Champ.) 
11. Camellia assimilis, Champ., sp. n.; frutex, ramulis glabris, foliis 
subsessilibus lanceolatis. acuminatis serratis glabris, floribus parvulis 
pendulis albis, sepalis sericeis obtusis, capsulis glabris parvis rostratis. 
Mount Victoria and Mount Gough. I have seen this species growing 
almost alongside of the last, and the general resemblance is very 
striking. Its smooth habit, shorter and wider leaves, and more 
especially the difference of shape in the sepals, form the distinction. 
