298 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 
lares v. subterminales, raro pollicem longi, incurvi, juniores sub- 
æquales, demum floribus cernuis subsecundi. Bracteæ nunc foliaceæ, 
oblongo-lanceolatæ, 2-3 lin. longæ, plus minus persistentes, nunc 
lineares, parvæ, caducæ. Bracteole minute. Flores vix 3 lin. longi. 
Calycis dentes parvi, acuti. Corolla alba, fere cylindrica, dentibus 
minimis reflexis. Genitalia corollam subæquantia. Antherarum 
tubuli loculis ipsis subtriplo longiores; aristæ dorsales latitudine an- 
therarum breviores, patentes, sursum incurvee. Discus epigynus cras- 
siusculus, villosus. Ovarium 5-loculare, ovulis in loculis paucis. 
Bacca pisi minoris magnitudine, cærulea, dissepimentis spuriis in- 
trusis sub-10-loculare, seminibus paucis. 
Hong-Kong. A pretty species, flowering in July and August, and 
ripening its fruit in September. I should have taken it for the P. - 
bracteatum, Thunb., but that Zuccarini, in his detailed description of 
that species (Pl. Jap. Fam. Nat. sect. ii. p. 6), besides differences 
in the size of the flowers and leaves, and in the length of the racemes 
and petioles, states expressly that the anthers are without aristæ, 
whereas I have found them in all the flowers I have examined, al- 
though so small that they may have escaped Zuccarini's observation. 
The structure of the ovary and fruit would place this plant next to the 
sections Batodendron and Cyanococcus of Asa Gray, with neither of 
which groupes however do the other characters precisely agree. 
2. Azalea Indica, Linn. 
Abundant and growing most luxuriantly on the banks of streams. 
3. Azalea squamata, Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc, vol. i. p. 152.— Bot. 
Reg. 1847, t. 3. 
Abundant on the hills. i 
4. Azalea myrtifolia, Champ. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 4609; foliis petio- 
_latis ovali-oblongis ellipticisve apice emarginatis cum mucrone calloso 
basi acutis subglabris nitidis, gemmis imbricato-squamatis unifloris, 
pedunculis hispidis, floribus pentandris, sepalis orbiculatis ciliato- 
hispidis, corolla sub-5-partita laciniis obovali-oblongis. 
On the Black Mountain, on rocks with 4. sguamata and A. Indica, 
where it was first seen by Col. Eyre in March 1849. In the article of 
the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ quoted above will be found a detailed de- 
scription; the 4. ovata, Lindl., is there inserted by mistake as à 
. Hong-Kong plant, the article 4. myrtifolia in the manuscript having 
.. been intended to be substituted for that of 4. ovata. 
