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bra, reticulato-venosa, venis primariis a costa divergentibus paucis 
longe ante marginem anastomosantibus. Racemi foliis breviores, pu- 
beruli. Pedicelli alterni, dissiti, breves, 1-2-flori. Bractee lineares, 
breves, v. lanceolato-subfoliaceæ acutæ, basi in petiolum angustatæ, 
3—5 lin. longæ. lores circa lineam diametro. Calyx puberulus, 
laciniis lanceolato-triangularibus acutis. Petala glaberrima, 3 lin. 
longa, vix longitudine angustiora. Filamenta crassiuscula, plana, 
ima basi tenuia, summo apice contracta, petalis paulo breviora. 
Fructus immaturus semipollicem diametro. i 
This plant, gathered in October 1848, differs from all Rhamnee 
known to me in the structure of the ovary, the carpels being almost if 
not quite distinet, and the ovules two in each carpel horizontally at- 
tached to the axis instead of being solitary and erect from the base. 
The arrangement of the stamens and petals is precisely the same as in 
Rhamnee. 
TEREBINTHACEZ. 
1. Rhus succedaneum, Linn.— Wight, Ic. t. 560. 
A common tree in the Happy Valley. Flowers and fruit in summer. = 
2. Rhus (Sumac) Aypoleuca, Champ., sp. n.; foliolis 11-17 ovato-lan- 
ceolatis acutiusculis basi inæqualibus supra ad venas vix tomentellis 
subtus ramulis petiolisque albo-tomentosis petiolo tereti, panicula 
terminali sessili foliis multo breviore, drupis rubro-villosis.— Folia 
pedalia, foliolis 13-3-pollicaribus brevissime petiolulatis. Panicule 
pyramidatz, ramosissimæ, tomentose, multiflore. Bractee minutæ, 
Pedicelli calyce breviores. Flores fere 2 lin. diametro. Petala — 
ovata, obtusa, calyce plus duplo longiora. Discus 10-crenatus. — 
Stamina florum fertilium ovario villoso breviora. "m 
A common shrub on Mount Gough, flowering in autumn. 
CONNARACEZ. 
1. Rourea microphylla, Planch. Linnæa, vol. xxiii. p. 421. ; 
Rather abundant in ravines. There are two very distinct varieties 
in Hong-Kong, one bearing the leaflets much fewer and smaller, the - 
inflorescence more lax, the flowers fewer and perhaps rather smaller - 
than in the other, but I can find no essential differences, and I have | 
seen several intermediate forms in other collections. j 
