56 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 
from Malacca and Tavoy. The M. Chinensis described by Grisebach 
(Pl. Meyen., p. 51), from the mainland of China, appears to be the 
same as M. nudicaulis of Reinwardt, a Sumatra plant gathered also in 
the Khasya by Griffith. A third East Indian species is M. Indica, 
Wight, Ic. t. 1601. t. 1, or M. pusilla, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. vol. 
ii. p. 136, which must be closely allied to, if not identical with, M. tri- 
nervis, Spanoghe, Linnæa, vol. xv. p. 335, from Timor. 
2. Strychnos colubrina, Linn.—A. DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 14. var.? 
Happy Valley, flowering in spring. This plant differs from Wallich's 
description of S. colubrina, in the leaves being broader in proportion to 
their length, and in the berry, which, when ripe, is red and of the size 
of a plum. I have no Silhet specimen to compare, and ascertain 
whether there may not be other differences of more importance. 
lage 3. Strychnos paniculata, Champ., sp. n.; glabra, subscandens, foliis 
3 ovatis 3—5-plinerviis coriaceis nitidis, paniculis thyrsoideis terminali- 
bus multifloris, floribus tetrameris, corolle tubo brevissimo.— Rami 
debiles, elongati, subscandentes, cirrhis spinisve (an semper?) desti- 
tuti. Folia ovata vel sublanceolata, superiora bipollicaria, brevis- 
sime petiolata, 1-14 poll. lata, acutiuscula, basi cuneata. Znflores- 
centia fere Ligustri Sinensis, minute puberula. ores ejusdem fere 
magnitudinis, numerosi, sordide albi, fragrantes. Pedicelli lineam 
longi. Calyx minutus, laciniis 4 ovatis margine ciliolatis. Corolle 
tubus vix semilineam longus, lacini: 14-lineares, ovate, basi intus 
longe barbatz, ezterum glabre. Filamenta fauci inserta, secus tu- 
bum intus decurrentia, antheris breviora; hæ majuscule, oblongze, 
corolle laciniis paulo breviores. Ovarium biloculare, glabrum, in 
stylum apice subcapitato-stigmatosum desinens. Ovula in quoque 
loculo circa 12. Bacce magnitudine Cerasi, abortu plereque mo- 
nosperme. 
Woods in the Happy Valley, found in flower in May, 1849. 
4. Medicia elegans, Gardn. et Champ., in Kew Journ. Bot. vol. i. 
p.325. | 
Scarce in Hong-Kong, but more abundant among the hills of the op- 
posite Chinese coast. The embryo, according to Major Champion, is 
fleshy, nearly filling the cavity of the seed, the cotyledons ovate, the 
radicle conical and slightly curved. Walpers is probably right (Ann. 
Bot. Syst. vol. iii. p. 73) in referring to this genus the Leptopteris of 
Blume, although the species may not be identical. 
