FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 165 
2 dorso oppositas dehiscentes. mentum infimum subfemineum, 
longius pedicellatum (pedicello per anthesin 3-4 lin. fructifero 1-14 
poll. longo), bracteis 4 caducissimis fultum, globosum, sub anthesi : 
. 3-4 lin. diametro, flores continens 20 ad 50.. Perianthia (P) mar- — 
gine irregulariter crenulata et puberula, cum basibus ovariorum in — 
massam duram concreta. Stamina pauca v. plurima, circa ovarium | 
marginibus perianthii inserta, fertilibus similia sed minora et ut 
videtur effoeta. Ovarium perianthio semi-immersum, biloculare, parte 
exserta divisa in lobos 2 conicos puberulos. Styli recurvi, intus - 
papillosi.  Ovula in loculis singulis circa 12, biseriata, partem supe- 
riorem dissepimenti occupantia. mentum fructiferum 9-10 lin. 
diametro, perianthiis accretis rugosum, sublignosum, puberulum. 
Capsule haud exsertæ, apice hiantes, et in me 2 bifidas brevi 
fisse. Semina non vidi. : 
À tall tree, very common in the Toy Valley” = 
Readily distinguished from Z. Altingia by its ‘coriaceous Less 
rowed at the base into a very short petiole*. — 
3. Eustigma oblongifolium, Gardn. et Champ. K Kew v Jour, Bot, 
p. 312. 4 
Happy. Valley woods, Mount ook. Mout: Victoria, and Bla 
Mountain. Major Champion found abundance of this shrub in fruit 
the Happy Valley woods; but almost invariably the seeds were 
stroyed by a worm before coming to maturity. The seeds are two i 
capsule, obovate, and marked by an elevated annular raphe. In 
only embryo seen, the cotyledons were small, with a conical radicle. The 
yellow flowers esa anui in ag the geio | 
‘predominates. E : 
T sinensis, foliis perum 
* In a memorandum on Bhodoleia în €: 
and Godjrickia wight fe pane ag 2 gg At app 
ren ere Hookers herum, um, that L. Altingia i 
are tical as species, and are certainly co gener 
ambar. All have monæcious flowers in terminal 
sistent and female, or more or less 
three or four very deciduous Aiat d 
stitute what is usually te voles 
