236 ` FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 
Folia ima desunt, intermedia 2-3 poll. longa, vix 13 liv. lata, mar- 
gine revoluta, infra medium longe angustata, utrinque viridia et 
scabriuscula, superiora decrescentia, summa distantia, parva, bracteæ- 
formia. Znvolucra 5 lin. longa, extus leviter arachnoideo-villosa, 
squamis striatis, extimis perpaucis apice subnudis, intermediis ap- 
pendice parva, intimis appendice majuscula lata scariosa colorata 
terminatis. Receptaculi paleæ numerose, angustæ, fere setiformes, 
eaduce, libere v. nonnulle basi brevissime connate. Antherarum 
caudz sublanatæ. Pappi interioris setze plumosæ basi in annulum 
connate, exterioris setze paucæ (interdum 2—3 tantum) integre ca- 
ducissimæ, interioribus duplo breviores. . 
Victoria Peak. ; 
31. Cirsium Chinense, Gardn. et Champ. Kew Journ. Bot. vol. 1. 
p. 323.—My specimens, communicated by Major Champion as the 
species sent to Dr. Gardner, have not the foliaceous bracts described 
by him, which were probably accidental in his specimen. The C. oret- 
thales, Hance in Walp. Ann. vol. ii. p. 944, appears from his character 
to be the same species. 
Victoria Peak and other hills. 
: 32, Ainsliæa fragrans, Champ., sp. n. ; foliorum radicalium petiolo non 
^ *5** alato, lamina ovata obtusa cordata integerrima v. vix calloso-denti- 
7 culata subtus villosa, capitulis secus caulem subsessilibus.—Caules et 
petioli lana laxa rufa vestiti. olia omnia subradicalia, supra scabra 
et parce pilosa, subtus pilis longis rufis plus minus vestita, ad mar- 
gines denticulis callosis remotis sæpe notata, basi auriculis rotundis 
profunde cordata. Scapus 1—-1}-pedalis, a medio ad apicem inter- 
rupte florifer. Capitula fere A. aptere v. paulo minora, glabra, ses- 
silia v. pedicello lineam longo fulta, squamis angustis acutissimis 
_ nitidis. Flores et fructus A. aptere. 
‘Scarce on Victoria Peak. Leaves purplish-pink underneath. Flowers 
.. in December, white, with a most delicious perfume of almonds. Sta- 
mens purple. 
| 83. Gerbera ovalifolia, DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 17. | 
. . On hills, Victoria Peak, Mount Parker, etc. The G. amabilis, Hance 
. in Walp. Ann. vol. ii. p. 947, from the same localities, must, from his 
character, be closely allied to the above, and only appears to differ in 
the scales of the involucre, smooth, coloured, and scarious at the tips 
and margins. Our plant has these scales entirely herbaceous and pu- 
