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laciniæ longiores, apice fere spathulatæ et convexiusculæ, sinubus 
acutis, dente accessorio lineari rarius interjecto. Corolle purpuras- 
centis laciniæ calycem æquantes, tubo suo paulo longiores. Capsule 
dicoccæ, coccis tandem intus rima dehiscentibus. 
Common in the neighbourhood of Chuckchow, but not on the Vic- 
toria side of Hong-Kong. In flower in August. 
Korthals is perfectly correct in reducing to this, which must be re- 
garded as the typical section of Hedyotis, the greater number of Blume's 
species of Metabolos, but I cannot agree with him in considering as dis- 
tinct genera the sections Dimetia, Macrandria, amd Diplophragma of 
` Wight and Arnott, in all of which the fruit readily splits into two cocci. 
On the other hand, adopting the sectional groupes so well characterized 
by Wight and Arnott, these writers appear to me to have gone too far 
in uniting them all into one genus. Oldenlandia, Anotis, and Houstoma, 
with their purely loculicidal dehiscence, appear to me to constitute à 
natural genus, which is the Hedyotis of Torrey and Gray’s Flora; and 
Scleromitrion with its peculiar Spermacoccous habit and characters, as 
defined by Wight and Arnott, may be allowed to remain as a genus 
distinct from either, answering to Hedyotis as defined by De Candolle. 
Kohautia likewise is too well marked in habit and character to be 
merged into Hedyotis. 
8. Scleromitrion angustifolium. — Hedyotis angustifolia, Cham. et 
Schlecht.—DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 419. 
Ravines, Hong-Kong. I have it also from Java, and it may possibly 
not be distinct from S. Zenelliflorum, Korth., or Hed. tenelliflora, Blume. 
9. Oldenlandia corymbosa, Linn. ; 
With the preceding species. . 
(To be continued.) 
Notes on BuLoocutstan PraxTs; by J. E. Srocks, M.D., F.LS., 
Assistant Surgeon, Conservator of Forests and Superintendent of 
Botanic Gardens, Bombay Establishment. 
(Continued from p. 150.) 
CONVOLVULACE. 
17. Convolvulus fenellus, J. E. S.; annuus, caule erecto cum foliis 
lineari-lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis pilis ut plurimum adpressis 
