FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 7 



Bradlda coronata of Wallich, Cat. n. 7857, but that has larger leaves 

 smooth on the upper side^ less sessile fruits^ and a remarkably long 

 style. 



Mr. Hinds gathered another GlocJiidion on the island (G. macrophyU 

 lum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i,), and the G, Slnicum 

 appears to grow on several of the neighbouring islands, but neither of 



them arc in Major Champion's collection. 



12. Melanthesa Ch'mensis^ BL Bijdn — M, ceruiia, Benth. in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 491, non Dene. — PJiyllanthus liicens^ Poir, 



Hook, et Arm Bot. Beech, p. 210. 

 Woods, Hongkong. 



13. V\\'^][2L\ii\i\k^ Maderaspatana^JAmx.^ 



Hongkong. A small specimen, agreeing precisely with Peninsular 

 specimens, which I cannot but refer to the plant described by Linngeus 

 and Willdenow, although it differs in some respects from that figured 

 by Wight in his Icones, t. 1895, fig. 3. The whole plant is of a glau- 

 cous hue ; the leaves generally cuneate or narrow-obovate ; the pedicels 

 shorter than the fully-developed female calyx. The anthers are three, 

 distinct, and scarcely sessile at the apex of the filaments, erect, but 

 without the projecting connectivum mentioned by Wight. The seeds 

 are beautifully marked with about eight or ten slender longitudinal ribs 

 and innumerable transverse rugosities. 



14. Phyllanthus? chiermcem. Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beech, p. 211. 

 Hongkong, gathered also at Lantao by Dr. Cantor. I hare not seen 



the male flower, but the plant must probably be referred to Wight's 

 genus Macraea. The females are borne on pedicels about 2 lines long, 

 and when fully expanded are a line and a half in diameter, with six 

 lobes broadly ovate. The ovarjj is encircled at the base by a slightly 

 lobed thick glandular disc, in which it is almost buried at the time of 

 flowering, but from which it soon emerges. Styles joined at the base, 

 and each divided to the middle into two recurved lobes. Capsule above 

 2 lines in diameter, depressed, globose; the seeds, under a strong 

 magnifier, marked with innumerable minute tubercles. 



The two common Indian weeds, PJiyllanthus Niruri and P, Urinaria, 

 are probably also to be found in Hongkong, as I have seen Chinese 

 specimens of both. The P, Uiinaria, distinguished by modern authors 

 by its warty capsules (see Bot. Beech, p. 210), has also the seeds marked 

 by deep transverse furrows, which the Ni)iiri has not (see Zucc. PL Jap. 



