observed that, 
it could conjecture to what family it belonged. We could only wait 
50 
THE CHINESE RICE-PAPER PLANT. 
It is on this account that Ernst Meyer changed the name of u 
Candolle's genus to Copisma. Yet De Candolle himself saw Loureiro’s 
plant, and considered it without doubt as a congener, and places it — 
next to R. phaseoloides, which our plant much resembles. 
24. Eriosema Chinense, Vog. Leg. Meyen. p. 31. 
Victoria Peak, common, flowering in May. 
(To be continued.) 
On the Chinese Rice PAPER; dy Str W. J. Hooker, D.C.L., 
F.R.A. and L.S. 
(Tas. I., IT.) 
At page 27 of our Second Volume of the ‘Kew Garden Miscellany,’ 
we expressed our obligations to Captain Wm. Loring, R.N., of Peartree … 
House, Southampton, as well as to J. H. Layton, Esq., then H. BM 
Consul at Amoy, for several particulars relative to the « Rice-paper, or - 
“ Bok-shung ” of the Chinese, and we stated that the latter gentleman, - 
so well located for the 
the island of Formos 
plant which yields thi 
we laid before our rea 
from a well-executed 
us by C. J. Braine, 
of the seed, the so 
preparing the ** 
sented of so stra 
- Mr. Layton was unfortunately re- 
| . knowledge of the plant :—a section of the stem shows that it is really t 
