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Equally common with the M. Sinensis, flowering in spring. It is 
readily distinguished from all species known to me by the leathery con- 
sistence of the leaves, and the short inflorescence. I formerly referred 
it to the M. nemoralis, A. DC., but that species appears to have broader 
and thinner leaves, and a differently shaped fruit. 
3. Embelia Rides, Burm.—A. DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 85. 
Common in ravines of Mount Victoria and the Happy Valley woods. 
4. Samara obovata.—Choripetalum obovatum, Benth. in Lond. Journ. 
Bot. vol. i. p. 490.—C. Benthamianum, Hance in Walp. Ann. Bot. 
vol. iii. p. 10. 
A common shrub at West Point and Victoria Peak. Flowers small, 
yellowish-white, scentless. The genus Choripetalum, DC., is reduced 
to Samara, Linn., on the authority of Arnott, as quoted in Wight, Il- 
lustr. vol. ii. p. 139, who has shown that the plate of Burmann, which 
has misled modern botanists, was erroneously referred by Linnæus to 
his Samara. The leaves in our species vary from obovate to oblong, 
but they have so frequently a tendency to the obovate form that I see 
no reason for changing the specific name originally given. : 
5. Myrsine capitellata, Wall.—A. DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 94, var. 
angustifolia. 
Hong-Kong, growing to a tree, but flowers (in February) also as a 
shrub. This form only differs from the var. B. parvifolia, A. DC., in 
the leaves being rather longer and narrower. The Javanese plant re- 
ferred by Zollinger and Moritzi to the M. avenis, and several other sup- 
posed Eastern species, must be added to the varieties of this plant, if 
the Silhet, Nilgherry, and Ceylon forms already united with it are really 
mere varieties of the original large-leaved Nepalese M. capitellata. 
6. Ardisia pauciflora, Heyne.—A. DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 127. 
In ravines. Shrubby. Flowers small, white, with orange dots. I 
had at first considered this as new, but on a closer examination I can 
find nothing to distinguish it from East Indian specimens of 4. pauci- 
flora. ges : 
7. Ardisia crispa, A. DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 184. 
Victoria Peak and near the Buddhist Temple, rare, flowering in July. 
8. Ardisia punctata, Lindl.— A. DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 135. 
Abundant on Vietoria Peak, flowering in June. 
9. Ardisia Japonica, Blume.—A. DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 135. 
In the bed of a ravine of Mount Victoria in July. 
