166 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 
 . Extremely rare in the Happy Valley woods, growing in very thick 
underwood. It forms a tree, thickly covered with flowers, the white 
bracts of which are very conspicuous ata distance. The flowers are 
green, with purple stamina. The calyx is entire and truncate, as in 
the Japanese specimens, and the leaves are still smoother and shining 
-~ above; but in form they approach nearer to those of B. fragifera, 
— — from which this species is readily distinguished by the calyx, as well as 
= by the absence of all whiteness on the leaves and young shoots. 
. — 9. Marlea begonigfolia, Roxb.—DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 267. 
- Happy Valley woods, flowering in May and June. Arboreous. In 
young plants the leaf is extremely variable in shape. The flowers are 
at first white and rather fragrant, ultimately turning’ yellow, as in the 
‘Honeysuckle. For the close affinity of Alangiee with Cornus, see 
capt a Een Joum. Bot. vol. ii. p. 129. : 
_ CAPRIFOLIACEÆ, 
» =? Thews nervosum, Hook. et Arn. Bot. fien: p. 190. 
< Common on Mount Victoria and Mount Gough, flowering in May. - 
The ovule, aecording to Major Champion's observations on fresh speci- 
mens, is slightly excentrical, and only becomes central as the fruit is - 
forming. The fruit has also a tendency to increase more on one side, 
hich becomes convex, than on the other, which remains flatter; and - 
hougl the seed is centrical, the umbilicus is often slightly lateral — 
iburnum | stehe Do. Dci ehm, dic 
Lonicera K 7 2 ae mii iv. P. 333. e 
oe: over the island, but of less s frequen occurrence | 
pee mim —Folia age x ids, S Pali. p : 
