78 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 
About East Point, covering the banks in April with its fragrant white 
flowers, and exceedingly attractive to Coleoptera. A similar species 
with smaller leaves and flowers, in Mr. Cay’s garden, was said to 
grow upon Victoria Peak, but there are no specimens in the collection. 
This may probably have been the PA. glauca, not uncommon in the 
Moluccas. 
A > 87. Phanera Championi, Benth. sp. n. ; scandens, folio basi late cordato 
= 5-7-nervio, foliolis ad 2 connatis semiovatis obtusis supra glabris ni- 
tidis subtus anisliague novellis tomentellis mox glabratis, racemis 
elongatis subsimplicibus multifioris, calycis tubo brevissimo laciniis 
herbaceis lanceolatis acutis, petalis parvis unguiculatis pilosulis, 
ovario tomentoso.—Frutex alte scandens, preter canescentiam inflo- 
rescentiæ et partium juniorum glaber.  CirrAi simplices, circinati, 
oppositifolii, solitarii v. gemini, Stipule minute. Petioli $-1-pol- 
lieares. Folia 21-4 poll. longa, 2-23 poll. lata. Racemi oppositi- 
folii, simplices v. ad apices ramorum subramosi, 4—8-pollicares, fere 
a basi floribundi. Bractee minute, setaceæ. Pedicelli 6-8 lin. longi, 
versus medium bracteolis 2 minutis alternis instructi.  Calyz viridis, 
tubo linea breviore turbinato, laciniis 2 lin. longis. Petala vix lon- 
giora, tenuia, alba. Stamina 3 duplo longiora, sterilium rudimenta 
inconspieua. Discus carnosus, calycis tubum omnino implens, vix 
tamen exsertus. Ovarium brevissime stipitatum, oblongum, bisulca- 
tum, tomentosum, in stylum brevem attenuatum. Ovula 6-8. Legumen 
compressum, glabrum, inter semina contractum, circa 3 poll. longum, 
1 poll.latum, 3—5-spermum. 
* Common in ravines of Victoria Peak, at East Point, etc. 
This very remarkable species approaches in some respects in habit 
the Lasiobema anguina (Bauhinia anguina, Roxb.), and I had at first 
thought it might be referable to that genus, if cireumscribed as Korthals — 
originally proposed, but a careful examination shows that, like the —- 
B. retusa, Roxb., it belongs to the largest of the Asiatic Bauhinoid 
genera, Figura, as characterized in the ‘ Plantæ Junghuhniane.’ In 
Ph. Championi, as in Ph. retusa, the tube of the calyx is evident, though 
. very short and entirely filled by the fleshy disc, whilst in Zasiobema an- 
. guina the calyx is open and the disc is exserted, pulviniform, and 
E though unilateral, rather hypogynous than perigynous. 
The plant gathered by Mr. Hinds in Hong-Kong, and referred by 
| me formerly to Bauhinia scandens, Linn. (a very doubtful species), is 
