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D. aromatica, which, he says, occurs in Ceylon, and yields the best 
cinnamon. Here may be an error. The uncertainty is increased by 
his not giving characters of the species; and the identity with the 
species of Colebrooke cannot be decided. There seems to be some mis- 
take in the account of Gærtner, for no Dryobalanops has ever been 
found in Ceylon, and it is impossible that a Dryobalanops should pro- 
duce cinnamon, and that even the best in Ceylon. Perhaps he was 
misled by inaccurate statements on the labels of some of Sir Joseph - 
Banks’s specimens. Hitherto our efforts to arrive at some certainty in 
this case have been unsuccessful. If it be decided that the plant men- 
tioned by Gærtner is the same as that of Colebrooke, then, according 
to the opinion of some botanists, there would be a reason for adopting 
the name D. aromatica of Gærtner, instead of that of Colebrooke. But, 
first, that reason does not yet exist; and we think that we should 
maintain the system established among botanists, that no priority can 
be given in science to a name of a plant unaccompanied by a descrip- 
tion. It is possible that Gærtner had the description of his species in 
manuscript, but he did not publish it. Shorea, Roxb., and Pterygium, 
Corr., have been described later than Gærtner’s Dryobalanops, and 
must therefore be represented here as synonymous. 
(To be continued.) 
FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS : an Enumeration of the Plants collected 
in the Island of Hong-Kong, by Capt. J. G. Champion, 954% Reg., 
the determinations revised and the new species described by GEORGE 
BENTHAM, Esa. s 
(Continued from vol. iii. p. 834.) 
RHAMNEZ. 
1. Paliurus Æubletii, Schult. Syst. vol. v. p. 343. t 
A moderate-sized unarmed tree, with the appearance of the Jujube, ae 
cultivated in, if not indigenous to, Hong-Kong. It is certainly a Pa- 
liurus. The leaves are glaucescent. The fruit is nearly smooth, with — 
the wiug coarsely crenated, three-celled, three-seeded; the seeds erect, — — 
pretty large, surrounded by a slight fleshy coating; testa — hard. : qe 
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