73 FLOBULA H0NGK0NGEN3IS 



ia difFerent stages of germination, will probably clear up this difficulty, 

 and I shall keep ray attention directed to it. 



An apparently anomalous condition of the seed of a species of Calo- 

 pJiylliim occurred to my observation a short time ago. Instead of find- 

 ing, as is usual in this genus, an exalbuminous embryo, with large, 

 thick, oily, colourless cotyledons, I found a moderate-sized, well-deve- 

 loped, deep green embryo, immersed in an abundant albumen. Whe- 

 ther this be the usual condition of the seed in this species (C.P. No. 

 2446), I must ascertain by getting specimens, in the proper season, 

 from other trees of the same kind. 



{To be confimed.) 



Flokula Hongkongensis : an Enumeration of the Plants collected 

 in the Island of Honglcong^ hy Major J. G. Champion, 95/A Reg.\ 

 the determinations revised and the neto species described hy Geouge 



Bentham, Esa. 



{Continued from J}, 9.) 



Genera allied to Euphoubiace^*. 



!• Scepa ChinensiSy Champ., sp. n. ; foliis oblongis apice subdentatis 

 coriaceis glabris v. subtus ad costam pilosis, amentis masculis brevi- 

 bus densis, perigonii laciniis longe rufo-ciliatis, staminibus saepius 2. 

 'Arlor^ ramulis parce hirtellis. Folia in specimine bipoUicaria, se- 

 mipoUicem lata, deutibus panels brevibus obtusis, petiolo 3 Uu. longo, 

 sed verosimiliter sa^pe majora sunt et latiora, Stipulas jam delapsas 

 non vidi. Amenta mascula (vix perfecte evoluta) semipoUicaria, fas- 

 ciculata, fere a basi dense imbricata. Squam<B latae, obtusiuscultB, 

 leviter ciliato-puberulse, flores fovent 3-5 sessiles, quorum laterales 

 interdum minores 2-3-meri et monandri, plerique tamcn 4-meri di- 

 andrique. Perigonii lacinise concavse, parura insequales, ciliis 

 ginalibus longis rufisque. Ovarii vestigium nullum vidi. Spica 

 fccminea, longitudine amenti masculi, obtecta est villis longis rufis 

 squamisque lis marium similibus, in specimine suppetente ultra me- 

 dium sterilis, apice fructifera, florentem non vidi. Fructus in speci- 

 mine 5, ovoidei, acuminati, basi in stipitem brevem attenuati, villis 



* See Tulasne's exceHeat monograpli of Antidesmea, in the 'Annales des Sciences 

 Naturellea,' Ser. 3, vol. xv. p. 180, where he has shown good grounds for associating 

 Scepacea and Anfidesmea with Eupkorhiacop, if not for unitiDe them in one family. 



