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species from Wallich*s Nepaul collection, n. 9091 of his catalogue, both 

 males and females, wMcli have enabled me to complete the description. 

 It agrees with Zuccarini's character of Morocarpus in the constantly tri- 

 merous male flowers, and in the structure of the females and of their 

 stigmate, but the anther-cells do not appear to be distinctly enough 

 divided to call the anther four-celled, and I have not seen the fruit to 

 ascertain whether it becomes fleshy. Miquel's Leucocnide^ from his cha- 

 racter, agrees with Morocarjpm in the stigmate and inflorescence, and 

 in the apparent absence of perigon in the females ; it has likewise some 

 triandrous species. He considers however the bracts at the base of 

 the ovary as representing the female perigon, whilst to me it appears, 

 at least in our species, that the minute teeth at the summit indicate its 

 adherence to the ovary* Miquel also describes the stipules as axillary 

 and l)ipartite ; but that is only another mode of expressing the connec- 

 tion of the two stipules at the base within the petioles. 



4. A shrubby or arborescent Vrticacea^ from the Happy Valley 

 woods, perfectly glabrous, with shining, coriaceous, alternate leaves, 

 and corymbose, 5-merous male flowers ; but, for want of the female, I 

 am unable to determine the genus, 



5. Sponia argentea. Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. Ser. 3. vol. x. p. 323, 

 Hongkong. 



6. Morus albuy Linn. 

 Cultivated in Hongkong. 



7. Picus (Urostigma) nitida^ Thunb. — TJrodigma niiidum, Miq. in 



Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. vi. p. 583. 



A common Chinese tree-fig, found also in Hongkong by Major 

 Champion, although no specimen was gathered. The genera established 

 by IVIiquel appear to form very good sections, but are scarcely founded 

 upon characters of sufficient importance, or are suflaciently natural, to 

 justify the breaking up so very natural and distinct a genus as Ficus. 



8. Ficus (Urostigma) a«y«^/j/bZ«?, Eoxb. — Urostigma nerwsum,^lic{. 



in Lond. Journ, Bot. vol. vi. p. 585. 



A shrub in the Happy Valley woods, agreeing precisely with Sillet 



specimens. 



9. Picus (Plagiostigma) pyrifortnis, Hook, et Am. — Miq, in Lond. 



Journ. Bot. vol* vii. p. 437. 



A shrub, always found in the beds of watercourses, where it is com- 



mom and in fruit at the time when Azalea Indica blows. 



