300 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 
1-2-pollicares, apice rosulato-foliiferos. Folia 1-13 poll. longa, 3-5 
lin. lata, basi in petiolum plus minus angustata, margine integerrima 
et revoluta, apice obtuso, utrinque pilis longis articulatis hyalinis his- 
pida et glandulis minutis conspersa, supra inter pilos glabra et demum 
granuloso-verrucosa, subtus furfure minuta pallentia v. rufescentia. 
Pedunculi folia æquantes, uti calyces hispidi et glanduliferi, inferiores 
sæpe scapiformes v. stoloniformes apice racemum brevissimum v. 
fasciculum florum foliis intermixtum ferunt. Sepala oblonga, acumi- 
nata, 2 lin. longa. Corolla flava, 8-9 lin. diametro, tubo brevissimo, 
limbo rotato 5-partito, laciniis late ovatis minute fimbriatis. Fila- 
menta brevia, ultra medium connata in cupulam inter stamina ob- 
scure et obtuse 5-dentatam. Anthere oblonge. Ovarium unilocu- 
lare, placenta globosa multiovulata. Capsula calyce brevior, globosa, 
valvulis 5 integris dehiscens. 
In subalpine situations, flowering in April. This very distinct species 
appears in some measure to connect Androsace with Lysimachia, having 
somewhat of the hábit of the former, with the inflorescence and floral 
characters of Lysimachia. 
MYRSINEZ. 
47" 1. Mæsa Sinensis, A. DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 82, var. glabrior. 
Very common in Hong-Kong, flowering early in spring. Fortune’s 
specimens, n. 151, agree more exactly with De Candolle’s character; 
Major Champion’s are less hairy, and the panicles shorter; but all the 
species of this genus are very variable. : 
2. Mæsa coriacea, Champ., sp. n.; glaberrima, foliis elliptico-oblongis 
^,^ integerrimis v. remote dentatis coriaceis margine revolutis, paniculis 
petiolum brevem æquantibus rarius duplo longioribus, bracteis ovatis 
bracteolis lobisque calycinis obtusissimis, drupa globosa obtusa.— 
Folia 3-4-pollicaria, breviter et obtuse acuminata, basi acuta v. ob- 
_ tusiuscula, petiolo 2—4-lineari, supra demum nitidula, punctis pellu- 
cidis minutis vix sub lente conspicuis, costa venisque primariis paucis 
supra impressis subtus elevatis. Bracteæ squamæformes, late ovate ; 
bracteolæ orbiculatæ v. fere reniformes. Calycis lacinize orbiculatæ, 
longitudinaliter glanduloso-lineatz. ^ Corolla fere 2 lin. longa, alba, 
tubo lato calyce subduplo longiore, limbi laciniis rotundatis vix cre- 
nulatis. Ovarium calyci adnatum, disco lato depresso-pyramidato. 
Drupa 2 lin. diametro. 
