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FLOEULA HONGKONGEXSIS. 



Fam. Nat. p. 36), but I cannot discover any character to separate from 

 it the P. Cantoniensis, Hornem., described by Klotzsch, PL Meyen. 

 p. 420, P. lepidocarpa, Sieb. et Zucc. PL Jap. L c., of both of which I 

 have examined authentic specimens, nor yet the P. leprocarpa, Wight, 

 Ic. 1. 1895, f. 4, judging from specimens of Gardner. 



15. Embh'ca officinalis, Gaertn. var. — Bichelactina nodicaulis, Hance, 

 in Walp. Ann. Bot. vol. iii. p. 376. 



Eavines, Hongkong. I have examined several forms of this species, 

 aU closely resembling each other in their foliage and pubescent branches. 

 In the common cultivated variety, the male flowers are very small, and 

 crowded on the lower parts of the small branches, from which the leaves 

 are mostly fallen at the time of flowering. These male flowers are 

 mostly without glands, although I have sometimes seen them about 

 the size of those figured in Wight, Ic. t. 1896. In the Himalayan 

 specimens the flowers are generally less crowded, the floral leaves more 

 persistent, the male flowers sometimes without glands, sometimes with 

 one or two only, larger than in the above-quoted figure. In my Hong- 



flowers are rather larger, and all six glands are of a considerable size. 

 I have not seen the female flowers of the latter, but in the East Indian 

 specimens the irregular teeth of the cup-shaped disc, and the divisions 

 of the branches of the styles, are variable in size. The knotty enlarge- 

 ments of the woody stem mentioned by Hance, are to be seen occasion- 

 ally in Indian specimens. - •;=. 



16. Briedelia tomentosa, BL, var. glahrescens ,—B . Loureiri, Hook, et 

 Arn. Bot. Beech, p. 211 ? 



Hedges, East Point. The specimen is in fruit only, so that I am not 

 certam of its identity with Hooker and Arnott's species. It only differs 

 from those distributed by Wallich from Penang and by Zollinger from 

 Java, as the B. tomentosa, BL in the smoothness of the leaves ; they 

 are never however wholly without a few small hairs on the underside, 

 especially towards the base of the midrib. I have both the pubescent 

 and smooth forms from Assam and Sillet. 



17. Goughia Nilgherretisis, W 



. owards Little Hongkong,, wuere ii is aounaant ana rorms a 



The specimens, both male and female, are precisely similar to 

 those I have from Gardner from the Neilgherries ; and widely separated 

 as are these stations, I cannot find the slightest character to distinguish 



tree. 



