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FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. TTE 
apice recurvæ, intus basi uti faux corolle pilose. Stamina nunc 
corolla breviora stylo longe exserto, nunc corollam subsuperantia 
stylo incluso. Discus epigynus concavus, circa stylum hispidus. 
Placentæ medio dissepimento peltatim affixee. ^ Capsula intra dentes 
calycinos breviter 4-valvis, in coccos 2 facile bipartibilis. 
Abundant in ravines, gathered also by Fortune, n. 53. 
Hedyotis (Diplophragma) acutangula, Champ., sp. n. ; suffruticosa ? 
glabra, caule erecto acute tetragono v. alato, stipulis triangularibus, 
foliis ovato-lanceolatis subsessilibus crassiusculis pauciveniis, cymis 
2-3-chotomis paniculatis, calycibus sessilibus, dentibus brevibus ob- 
tusis, corollæ tubo exserto lobis longiore, capsule coccis intus hian- 
tibus.—Z. Lawsonie ? Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 496, non 
Wight et Arn.— Caules ultrapedales, basi crassi, sublignosi. Stipule 
herbaceæ, breviter vaginantes, obtusæ v. acutæ, integræ v. apice 
denticulatæ. Folia 2-3-pollicaria, basi rotundata v. longe angustata, 
venis valde obliquis sæpe inconspieuis. Cymæ corymbiformes, multi- 
flore, in paniculam oblongam v. subcorymbosam dispositæ, ramis 
angulatis alatisve, bracteis parvis patentibus. Calycis tubus turbi- 
natus, semilineam longus; laciniæ ovatz, tubo breviores. Corolla 
tubus lineam longus, intus supra medium villosus, limbi laciniæ 
ovato-lanceolatæ, Stamina inclusa. Stylus vix exsertus. Discus 
epigynus tenuis, glaber. Placente supra medium dissepimenti pel- 
tatim affixee. Capsule vix linea longiores. Semina pauca, orbiculata, 
intus angulata, peltatim affixa. 
Common in ravines, flowering in summer. It is Fortune’s no. 75. 
From the older descriptions I had formerly thought this might be the 
H. Lawsoniæ, taken up from Rheede and Lamarck, but it is certainly 
widely different from that species as now figured in Wight’s ‘ Icones” — — 
7. Hedyotis (Euhedyotis) éorrerioides, Champ., sp. n. ; glabra, caule 
539? adscendente acutangula, stipulis triangularibus laciniatis, foliis sub- 
sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis basi angustatis, capitulis multifloris ses- 
silibus, calycis laciniis oblongo-linearibus obtusis corollam æquanti- 
bus.—Caules virgati, ultrapedales. Stipule brevissime vaginantes, 
laciniis lineari-subulatis rigidulis. Folia bipollicaria, lævia, vems 
paucis valde obliquis subtus prominentibus lineata. Florum cymæ 
densissimæ, more Borreriarum in capitula duo globosa collectæ, altero 
terminali 6-8 lin. diametro, foliis 2 fulto, altero a terminali distante, 
axillari, vertieilliformi. Calycis tubus subglobosus, vix lineam longus ; 
