FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 45 
ramosi. Stipule minute, setaceæ. Foliorum petiolus communis 4- 
pollicaris, tenuis, glaber, prope basin sspe glandulam fert plus 
minus distinctam.  Sfipellæ setaceæ. ^ foliola petiolulata, ultima 
pollicem sæpe excedentia, cætera minora, pleraque late ovata et ob- 
iusissima v. retusa, interdum plus minus acutata et mucronata, 
omnia quam in speciebus affinibus rigidiora, et utrinque insigniter 
retieulato-venulosa. Racemi folio paulo breviores, vix infra medium 
floriferi, pedunculo tenui glabro. Bractee minutissimæ. Pedicelli 
l4 lin. longi. Calyx pedicello brevior, late cyathiformis, dentibus 
acutis tubo brevioribus. Corolla 7 lin. longa, petalis extus pubes- + 
centibus roseo-lilacinis.  Vexillum sessile, obovali-oblongum ; ale 
vexillo æquilongæ, angustæ, obtusiusculæ, ungue brevissimo vix con- 
spicuo; carina alis paulo brevior, submucronulata, unguibus fere 
lineam longis. Stamen vexillare a basi liberum, cetera alte connata ; 
antheræ more generis connectivo mucronate. Ovarium glaberri- 
mum, multiovulatum. Stylus glaber, imberbe, apice subcapitato- 
stigmatosus. r 
Victoria Peak, Hong-Kong ; re or May. (J. G. Champion.) 
Gathered also by Fortune, on Silver Island (n. 43). The fruit has 
not been seen. The species is allied to Z. macrostachya, Vent., and 
I. decora, Lindl., both from China; it differs from the former by its 
smoothness, from the latter by the smaller and rounder leaflets and 
smaller flowers, from both by its low stature and by the venation of the 
leaflets. 
7. Tephrosia purpurea, Pers. 
8. Zornia diphylla, Pers., var. angustifolia, impunctata. | 
The two species into which the Z. diphylla has been divided, the 
American Z. reticulata and the Eastern Z. angustifolia, are usually 
distinguished by the pellucid dots of the bracts present in the latter, - 
absent in the former; and our Hong-Kong plant, as well as several - 
specimens from the Indian Archipelago, would thus be referable to 
Z. reticulata, though with the habit of Z. angustifolia, and unless some 
better character be found to distinguish them, we must re-unite ie them : 
under Persoon’s name as suggested by Vogel. dis 
- 9. Æschynomene Zzdica, Linn : 
The three last common East du species are from the estuary a 
East Point. ae 
ae 510. Uraria crinita, D B, ie racemis primariis alig- 
