FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 117 
Hong-Kong, with the two preceding, and shrubby like them; in 
woods, however, this species becomes a straggling under-tree, seventeen 
to eighteen feet high. Major Champion measured one of its flowers 
during rainy weather upwards of four inches in diameter. I have no 
doubt that this is the species figured by Sims from a plant raised from 
Chinese seeds, Naudin’s character is taken from Javanese and Penang 
specimens, and does not mention, any more than Sims’s description, 
the broad, smooth dilatation of the base of the calycine lobes, in the 
form of lateral appendages to the hispid portion, which is lanceolate. 
Should it prove, however, as conjectured by Naudin, that the M. san- 
guineum and M. decemfidum are but varieties of one species, the present 
form, without doubt, belongs to the same one. 
5. Osbeckia Chinensis, Linn. Spec, p. 490, excl. syn. Pluk., non 
Auct. plur.—O. linearis, Blume.—Naud. L. c. vol. xiv. p. 70. 
Common on grassy sides of Vietoria Peak. Annual, or at any rate 
usually so, although the hard dry bases of the stems in the dried speci- - 
mens give it the appearance of an almost suffrutescent perennial. 
There can be little doubt that this plant, not uncommon about Can- 
ton, is Linnzeus's original Osbeckia, gathered by Osbeck in South China ; 
but the figure he quotes of Plukenet's, representing a Madras plant, is 
evidently the O. serialis, Naud., or O. Zeylanica, Wight et Arn. The 
garden plant, figured as O. Chinensis in the ‘Botanical Magazine,’ 
t. 4026, is a very different species, and there is no evidence of its 
being of Chinese origin, Blume’s O. linearis, a common species in the 
Philippines and Moluccas, well described by Naudin, agrees precisely 
with our Chinese one, and we should be well disposed to concur with 
his suggestion, that the common Himalayan O. angustifolia is a mere 
variety of the same. 
The Allomorphia pauciflora, described in my enumeration of Hinds's 
Hong-Kong plants, has not been found by Major Champion. 
,9. Memecylon Jigustrifolium, Champ., sp. n.; ramulis teretiusculis, 
© foliis ellipticis basi acutis breviter petiolatis apice vix acuminatis - 
coriaceis uninerviis, pedunculis petiolo paulo longioribus paucifloris, - 
alabastris globosis obtusis, ovulis 8-10 annulatis.—#Frufex glaberri- 
mus, ramulis tenuibus. Folia 2-8 poll. longa, circa pollicem lata, 
petiolo bilineari, basi apiceque plus minus angustata, apice obtusius- 
cula v. rarius in acumen obtusum contracta, adulta crassiuscula et 
in sieco flavicantia, costa prominente venis lateralibus inconspicuis 
