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have been free, and I have now little hesitation in referring it to Ormosia, 
76 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 
similis. Stipule minute. Folia unifoliolata, exstipellata. Petiolus - 
3-1 poll. longus. Foliolum ovatum v. ovali-oblongum, acuminatum, 
basi rotundatum, 2-3 poll. longum, 1-13 poll. latum, rigide char- 
taceum, utrinque viride, penninerve et reticulato-venosum. Racemi 
axillares v. subterminales, 2—5-flori, folio multo breviores. Pedun- 
culus communis 2-6 lin., pedicelli. 3 lin. longi. Bractee minutæ, 
caducissimæ ; bracteolæ sub calyce parvæ, diutius persistentes. Calyz 
1$ lin. longus, laxus, per anthesin sæpe reflexus. Petala alba, brevis- 
sime unguiculata. Vexillum et ale 5 lin., getala carinalia 6 lin. longa. 
Abundant in ravines of Victoria Peak and elsewhere. The genus 
is closely allied in habit and character to Baphia, Bracteolaria, and 
Leucomphalus, all from tropical Africa, but the calyx is neither divided E 
nor spathaceous, and the fruit (which I have not myself seen) is pecu- - 
liar. It is described and represented in Major Champion’s MS. notes 
and sketches as above an inch long, inflated, green, scariose, reticu- 
late, and smooth, varying in shape from ovate to globose, narrowed | 
into a stipes at the base and into a point at the apex, with one or two 
perfect seeds (the remaining ovules being usually abortive). These | 
seeds (of which I have examined one) are large, scarlet, oblong-globose, 
with a caruneulus at the hilum, the cotyledons thick and fleshy, with a 
very short almost papilliform straight radicle. 
30. Ormosia? (Marquartia?) pachycarpa, Champ., sp. n.; foliolis 7 
obovali-oblongis breviter et abrupte acuminatis supra glabris viridi- 
bus, subtus petiolisque tomentoso-lanatis, calycibus subsessilibus to- 
mentosis, legumine lignoso turgido densissime tomentoso lanato intus 
non septato.— omentum petiolorum, foliolorum paginæ inferioris et 
leguminum densum implexum. Foliola majora semipedalia. Legumen 
monospermum pollieare, v. dispermum bipollicare, fere pollicem latum, 
sessile, obtusum, crassissime coriaceo-lignosum, ex ovario circa 6- 
ovulato accretum. Semen ei Tamarindi Indici paulo majus, irre- 
gulariter rhomboideo-quadratum v. orbiculare, crassum, testa. nitida 
rubro-fusca. Cotyledones crassi, basi profunde et inzequaliter cordati, 
radicula brevissima recta. 
À tree not uncommon in the Happy Valley woods and elsewhere, but 
never found in flower, and only once (January, 1850) in fruit. I have been 
much in doubt as to its affinities without having seen the flowers, but 
the remains of stamens at the base of one of the pods show them to 
