FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 303 
ferrugineis nunc copiosis longis nune parvis raris indutis. Pedunculi 
masculi brevissimi, squamis imbrieatis ferrugineo-pilosis obtecti. 
Calyces dense et molliter pilosi, fere 2 lin. longi, lobis 4 latis acu- 
tiusculis. Corolla alba, pariter villosa, tubo cylindrico calyce paulo 
longiore, lobis 4 ovatis. Stamina 16, 4-seriata; filamenta interiora 
brevia, exteriora elongata; antheræ acuminate. Ovarii abortivi 
rudimentum parvum. Fi. fœminei: Corolla ignota. Ovarium (ex 
Champ.) villosum, biloculare, ovulis in loculis solitariis pendulis. 
Styli ad medium connati. Bacca exsucca, oblonga, pollice brevior, 
obtusa, extus pilosa, abortu monosperma. 
Happy Valley woods; flowers in July and August; fruits in Janu- 
ary. With some general resemblance in foliage to the D. stricta, Roxb., 
and to the Gunisanthes pilosula, A. DC., this species is very different 
in structure from either. 
STYRACEÆ*. 
1. Symplocos Japonica, A. DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 255, var.? crassi- 
Jolia; foliis integerrimis, calycis lobis obtusis eciliatis. 
Mount Victoria. Shrubby. The inflorescence is in subsessile fasci- 
cles, as in S. ¢inctoria ; the leaves thick and shining, 25 to 3$ inches 
long, and about 14 broad. The character of S. Japonica, as given in 
the *Prodromus,' certainly does not agree with our specimens, espe- 
cially in the small size attributed to the leaves, their serrated margin, 
the pubescent racemes, and the acute ciliate calyces; but the specimen 
of 8. lucida, Sieb. et Zucc. (which is the S. Japonica, A. DC.) communi- 
cated to me by Zuccarini himself, has the inflorescence and calyx of our 
Hong-Kong plant; the leaves are intermediate in size, with here and 
there a few small indentures, so that most probably all these forms be- 
long to one variable species, nearer allied to the American 55. tinctoria 
than to any Asiatic species. 
= Symplocos (Hopea) microcarpa, Champ., sp. n.; glaberrima, foliis 
yi elliptico-oblongis longe acuminatis vix crenulatis basi acutis, racemis 
axillaribus simplicibus v. a basi trifurcatis folio pluries brevioribus, 
calycis lobis latis obtusis, drupa parva subglobosa.—Arbor parva, 
affinis quodammodo 8. caudate, Wall. Rami tenues. Folia 2-4 
* T am aware that Mr. Miers excludes Symplocos from Styraceæ, but his views of — 
its affinities are not yet published in sufficient detail to justify the disturbing De Can- 
dolle’s arrangement in a partial Florula like the present one. 
