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superiores vix oculo nudo conspicui, lana paginæ inferioris, ramu- 
lorum et petiolorum laxissima, demum sspe derasa. Pedunculi in 
axillis superioribus subbipollieares apice flores ferunt 3—4 masculos _ 
eum unico foemineo, inæqualiter pedicellatos, nutantes. Flores mas- 
culi: petala exteriora (v. sepala) 2 suborbiculata semipollicaria, in- 
teriora 2 oblonga concava. lin. longa; columna staminifera brevis; 
filamenta singula anthera oblonga sublongiora. Flores fœæminei : pe- 
tala 4 subæqualia, oblique ovata, 3—4 lin. longa, addito interdum 
quinto interiore angusto. Sfylus brevissimus, crassus, trifidus, stig- 
matibus crassis flexuosis. Capsula 5-1 lin. longa, minute hirtella, 
alis 2 angustis, tertia horizontaliter extensa, 7—8 lim. longa; pla- 
centæ in loculis duplicatæ, loculus unus ssepe abortu vacuus. 
Hong-Kong, flowering in October. The flowers are light piuk, the 
fruit a dark green. 
CRASSULACEZ. 
The Bryophyllum calycinum, gathered in the island by Mr. Hinds, is 
not in Major Champion’s collection. 
SAXIFRAGACEJE. 
1. Adamia versicolor, Fortune, in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. i. p. 298.— 
Lindl. et Paxt. Fl. Gard. t. 5.—.4. Chinensis, Gardn. et Champ. in 
Kew Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 311. 
Ravines of Mount Victoria, also Mount Parker. Flowers in June. 
The fruit, which ripens in January, is at first green, but assumes even- 
tually a bright blue colour. 
2. Itea Chinensis, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 189. t. 39. 
Happy Valley, on the outskirts of the woods at the top of the ridge, 
where several shrubs of it were found in July, 1848, but in fruit only. 
They did not flower at all in 1849. 
UMBELLIFERÆ. 
1. Hydrocotyle rotundifolia, Linn. 
Common in rice-fields. 
2. Hydrocotyle Asiatica, Linn. 
With the preceding species, but not so common. 
ARALIACEZÆ. 
1. Aralia Chinensis, Linn. 
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