FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 195 
longa, limbo 2-lineari, dentibus inæqualibus, omnibus tamen parte 
integra pluries brevioribus. Corolle tubus 4 lin. longus, crassius- 
culus, extus glaber, intus sub fauce pilosus; limbi laciniæ glabre, 
æstivatione contortee. Stamina ad faucem inserta. Stylus exsertus, 
apice clavatus, lobis erectis (v. demum patentibus?). Discus epigynus 
pulviniformis. Ovarium carnosum, biloculare, placentis tenuibus, 
ovulis plurimis, nonnullis etiam sub anthesi minimis abortivis. Bacca 
3—4 lin. diametro. Semina in quoque loculo 1-4, angulata, pulpa 
tenui intermixta. 
Abundant in ravines of Victoria Peak, flowering about April. The 
angular seeds are more like those of some species of S/ylocoryne, and 
in my specimen the lobes of the style are scarcely separated, but they 
are in fact distinct and considerably dilated, and the inflorescence is 
rather that of Randia than of Stylocoryne. 
18. Diplospora viridiflora, DC., Prodr. vol. iv. p. 477. 
A common shrub on Victoria Peak. Bark reddish-brown or ashy. 
Leaves very variable in size, from 2 to 4 or 5 inches. Flowers straw- 
coloured. Fruit, ripe in October, reddish, the size of a pea, with one 
or two seeds in each cell. In April, 1849, after heavy rains, Major - 
Champion found shrubs with six to ten flowers in each cyme or fascicle, 
and each corolla 44 lines in diameter; at other times the flowers are 
fewer in number, and scarcely 34 lines in diameter. The larger-leaved 
and smaller-flowered specimens are precisely similar to an original one 
of Canthium dubium, Lindl. (Diplospora, DC.) from the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden. I find, however, the ovules in each cell of the ovary 
to vary from two to three or four, with the addition, occasionally, of — 
two or three small abortive ones. Major Champion in the fresh speci- 
mens observed about six in each cell. This brings the genus very near — 
to some sections of Randia, of which it has much of the habit, and. ; 
from which it differs chiefly in its tetramerous flowers. From Can- - 
thium, of which it has also in some respects the habit, it differs widely - 
in the estivation of the corolla and the structure of the ovary. E. 
19. Stylocoryne Webera, A. Rich.—Wight et Arn. Prodr. vol i. — 
p. 401. eae 
Happy Valley, scarce. : 
20. Mouse mollissima, Walp., Rep. vol. ii. p. 51 1.— Tota planta 
molliter pubescens.  Sfipule lanceolate, 2-3 lin. longæ. Folia 
ovata v. oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, 3-5-pollicaria. Corymbus 
