312 DESCRIPTION OF TWO SPECIES OF BOEHMERIA. 
ACERINEÆ. 
1. Acer reticulatum, Champ., sp. n.; glabrum, foliis integerrimis 
ovatis oblongisve breviter acuminatis coriaceis reticulato-venosis 
utrinque viridibus, corymbis compositis glabris, alis fructus divaricatis. 
Near A. oblongum, Wall., but the leaves are much firmer, more 
reticulate, and with a shorter point, the petioles shorter, the corymbs 
or panicles smooth (not hairy), the flowers rather larger, and the wings 
of the fruit rather longer and narrower and much more spreading. 
The A. laurinum, from Java, is at once distinguished by the leaves, 
white underneath. 
On Mount Gough, in flower in December, in fruit in. July and 
January, also in the Happy Valley in flower in June. Leaves pellucid 
on the midrib and margin, rose-coloured when young. Flowers 3—4 
lines in diameter. Sepals oblong, rose-coloured. Petals spathulate, white. 
Style filiform, bifid, and acute at the apex. Ovary 2-celled, with 
two pendulous ovules from near the apex of the axis. Ovary and fruit 
rarely trimerous. 
SAPINDACEZÆ. 
1. Nephelium Zitchi, Camb. Mem. Sapind. p. 30. 
Very common in Hong-Kong, but probably always cultivated. 
(To be continued.) 
> Es and descriptions of two species of BOEHMERIA, of which the 
7 fibre is extensively used in making Cloth; by Sır W. J. HOOKER, 
7 D.C.L., FRA and L.S: 
(With two plates, Tas. VII. & VIII.) 
The cloth to which we here allude has been already noticed in this 
Journal, and mention made of the plants yielding the fibre. But the 
- botanical appellations of plants can give little information to the mer- 
... chant, or the manufacturer, or the consumer of the produce, or to any 
. save a professed botanist, unless accompanied by a figure or full 
description ; and we desire to convey information which should be useful 
sg to all classes of our readers. The scientific student of plants, upon 
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