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tato, fructu oblongo ovoideo 1-2-spermo.—Tota glaberrima. Ramuli 
tenues. Folia 13-24 poll. longa, pleraque in acumen obtusum plus 
minus producta, basi longe contracta in petiolum brevem, costa sub- 
tus prominente, venulis supra inconspicuis subtus tenuibus. Flores 
desunt. Pedunculi fructiferi. in axillis superioribus petiolo vix 
longiores, 1-3-carpici, ad apices ramorum pollicares, fructibus 5-7. 
Calyz defloratus 4 lin.longus, anguste clavatus, margine ultra 
ovarium producto, brevissime lateque 4-dentato. Ovarium biloculare, 
ovulis in quoque loculo pluribus. Bacca subdrupacea, 5—6 lin. longa, 
calycislimbo coronata. Pericarpium tenuiter carnosum, endocarpium 
crustaceum. Semen nune solitarium fruetu conforme, nunc gemina 
cavitatem implentia collateralia v. superposita, testa tenui, cotyledo- 
nibus crassis conferruminatis. 
Near the waterfall in the Happy Valley. This species is evidently 
allied to 4cmena Wightiana, figured in Wight Ic. t. 529. The leaves 
are smaller, more blunt, with less conspicuous veins, the calyx rather 
shorter. The flowers not having been yet seen, it remains to be proved 
whtther there is the same curious multiplication of petals as in Wight’s 
species. Of three fruits opened, one had a single seed, taking the shape 
of the fruit, the two others had two seeds each, forming together a mass 
of the same shape as the single seed ; in one case they were superposed, 
and consequently each seed was horizontally truncated, in the other 
they were collateral and separated by a vertical plane. 
6. Jambosa vulgaris, DC. 
Cultivated in Hong-Kong, but also occasionally appearing to grow 
wild. š 
T. Psidium pomiferum, Linn. a 
Of this, the common Indian Guava, there are no specimens, but in 
Major Champion’s notes it is said to be found wild in the island. 
8. Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, DO. 
Abundant on all low hills. The fruits ripens well and is pleasant to 
the taste. 
HOoMALINEX. 
1. Blackwellia fagifolia, Lindl., in Hort. Trans. vol. vi. P. 269.— 
B. padiflora, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1308.—B. Loureiri, Benth. in Lond. 
Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 482. | : 
A beautiful shrub, abundant in Hong-Kong, and growing almost to 
