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10. Buddleia Lindleyana, Forst.— Benth. |. c. p. 446. 
From Colonel Eyre's collection, but doubtful whether gathered in 
Hongkong or on the opposite Chinese coast. Major Champion also 
gathered the B. Asiatica, Lour., on the mainland, in situations which 
induce him to conjecture that it may be likewise found in the island. - 
11. Buchnera stricta, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 495. 
West Point and Little Hongkong. I doubt whether this may not 
prove to be a mere variety of B. cruciata, Hum. 
12. Striga hirsuta, Benth. 1. c. p. 502. 
Common with grass, upon which it is probably a parasite. 
13. Centranthera hispida, R. Br.—Benth. l. c. p. 525; var. floribus 
pallide flavis. ; 
Mount Victoria and Mount Parker. Major Champion, struck by the 
colour of the flower, so different from that of the common C. Aispida 
(purple or pink), considered this as a distinct species; but, on a 
careful comparison, I can find no other distinctive characters, and the 
colour of the flower is found to be variable in several genera of this 
group, of which the greater number of species are probably more or less 
parasitical.: 
OROBANCHEJE. 
Aginetia Indica, Roxb.— Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. xi. p. 48. 
Abundant in ravines, usually parasitical on a species of Andropogon. 
ACANTHACE. 
1. Thunbergia grandiflora, Roxb., var. cuspidata, N. ab E. in DC. Prodr. 
vol. xi. p. 55. ^ 
In a ravine at Sirwan. : 
u69 2. Phlebophyllum apricum.—Gutzlaffia aprica, Hance in Kew. Journ. 
Bot. vol. i. p. 143. i 
Hongkong, towards Tytam Bay and Little Hongkong.—Thbis plant- 
so closely resembles the two Peninsular species of Phlebophyllum in 
habit and in character, that I cannot think that the sole observable dif- 
ference—the greater length of the slender part of the tube of the corolla 
—is sufficient to warrant the adoption of it as a separate genus. The 
two upper divisions of the calyx are more or less joined together at the 
base, which is almost the sole character, and perhaps an insufficient one, 
by which Phlebophyllum itself is distinguished from Endopogon. As 
observed by Major Champion, there are in our plant what appear to be — 
