116 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 
as the middle finger, woody,—43 inches long, and 34 or 35 inches 
broad, very obtuse. The numerous scales are elosely compacted, large, 
almost exactly resembling those of the cone of Dammara orientalis ; the 
portions of the scales visible in the cone are narrow, much depressed, 
rhomboid, round at the upper and lower edge, and presenting no point 
or tooth whatever. There is a transverse depression in the centre, and 
a very indistinct umbo. 
The Plate (IV.) exhibits a portion of a branch, with two leaves, and a 
cone, all of the natural size. 
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FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS: an Enumeration of the Plants collected 
im the Island of Hong-Kong, by Major J. G. Champion, 954% Reg., 
the determinations revised and the new species described by GEORGE 
BENTHAM, Esa. 
(Continued from p. 81.) 
MELASTOM A&CEJE. 
1. Melastoma repens, Lam.—Nand. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. ser. iii. 
vol. xiii. p. 274. 
In some measure an alpine plant, being found on the summits of 
most of the Chinese and Hong-Kong hills, rarely at their bases. The 
fruit, which is pleasant to the taste, is the only edible species of Mela- 
. stoma in Hong-Kong; the plant flowers and fruits during the greater 
part of summer. 
2. Melastoma candidum, D. Don.—DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 145.—. 
calycinum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 485. 
Growing in similar localities to the M. macrocarpum, from which it 
is readily distinguished by the dense and much softer setæ, which are 
appressed on every part of the plant except a few ou the petioles, gene- 
rally rusty or reddisb on the branches, whitish and silky on the young 
leaves, very long, soft, and silky, and very densely appressed on the 
calyx. The bracteæ and calycine lobes are also much larger, I have 
it from the collections of Hinds, Champion, Vachell, and Fortune (n. 64)- 
3. Melastoma macrocarpum, Don.—Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. iii. 
vol. xiii. p. 281. 
Hong-Kong hills, lowering from June to August. 
4. Melastoma sanguineum, Sims, Bot. Mag. i. 2241.—Naud. 1. e.? 
