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FronvLA Honexoncensis: an Enumeration of the Plants collected 
in the Island of Hongkong, by Major J. G. Champion, 95th Reg. ; 
the determinations revised and the new species described by GEORGE 
BENTHAM, Eso. 
(Continued from p. 137.) 
PLANTAGINEJE. 
Plantago major, Linn., var. Asiatica, Dene. in DC. Prod. vol. xiii. 
p. 694. 
Waste places, Hong-Kong. 
PLUMBAGINE. 
Statice Sinensis, Girard.—Boiss. in DC. Prod. vol. xii. p. 642.—8. 
Fortunei, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 63. 
Aistuaries and salt-water pools towards Saywan. 
AMARANTACE, 
The only representatives of this Order found in the Island are three 
widely diffused tropical weeds; Pelosia argentea, Linn. Achyranthes 
aspera, Linn., and Amarantus oleraceus, Linn. Specimens of the 
two former were gathered by Major Champion, and of the latter by 
Mr. Hinds. : 
POLYGONE. 
1. Rumex crispus, Linn. 
Roadsides, Saywan. | 
2. Polygonum orientale, Linn., 8. pilosum M 
Rar. vol. iii. p. 54. 
Hong-Kong. ps 
The plant gathered in Hong-Kong which I had referred with doubt 
to this species as a variety discolor, proves to be very distinct. The 
seeds which I formerly examined were all too young to ascertain the —— 
structure of the embryo. I have now however succeeded in finding — 
one nearly ripe, in which the cotyledons are certainly parallel to the 
flat sides of the seed, and the whole embryo being slightly curved along 
one edge of the albumen, the radicle must be considered as accum- — 
bent, and the plant referred to the section Persicaria, coming very 
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