196 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 
the W. Shuttleworthi, Meisn., a New Holland plant, but the flowers 
(of a yellowish-green) are much longer, in nodding spikes, which, al- 
though very short, are not condensed into close heads like those of 
W. Indica. 
4. Daphne Fortunei; Lindl. in Hort. Soc. Journ. vol. i. p. 147. 
Very young specimens sent with those of Jiksiremia Indica. The 
late Professor Zuccarini considered this species not to be distinct from 
his Daphne Genkwa from Japan. 
ELÆAGNEÆ. 
Elæagnus Zoureiri, Champ., sp. n.; foliis ovatis supra viridibus subtus 
ramulis floribusque dense ferrugineo-lepidotis, perigonio amplo tubu- 
loso campanulato supra ovarium leviter constricto apice cum limbo 
erecto continuo,—Z. latifolia, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 89? non Linn. 
Mount Parker and Mount Gough, also on the mainland. This 
species, the most distinct of the whole genus in the shape of its 
flowers, has the leaves much like those of the Æ. latifolia, Linn., in 
shape, but the scales which cover their under surface, as well as the 
petioles, branches, and inflorescence, are much larger and of a rusty 
brown, and are particularly dense on the flowers themselves. The in- 
florescence is that of most species, a short raceme often reduced to 8 ~ 
fascicle of three or four flowers, or to a single flower; but the pedicels 
are long and the flowers large. The portion of the tube which encircles 
the ovary is about 13 lines long, lined by a dise which scarcely projects 
above the constriction. The remainder of the flower is full 8 lines long; 
nearly 5 lines in diameter at the base of the divisions, where there 1s 
none of the contraction observable in almost all Z/zagni. The divisions, 
. four in number, are nearly 3 lines long, apparently erect (not spreading 
as in other species), and have a few hairs in the inside at their base, 
the perigon is otherwise quite smooth inside as well as the style. The 
filaments are nearly half the length of the lobes of the perigon. 
Major Champion considers the above plant to be the Æ. latifolia of 
Loureiro, a Canton species, with whose description it certainly does not 
disagree. He mentions also having seen a drawing of it in the Hor- 
ticultural Society’s collection, under the name of Octarilla, Lour. If 
however the latter plant be really an Eleagnus, it may be referred with 
much greater probability to another South China species, which may be 
thus characterized :—Z. gonyanthes, Benth., sp. n.; foliis elliptico-oblon- 
