FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 333 
I have a specimen of the same form, gathered by Mr. Edgeworth in 
a garden at Dahra, in North India, and communicated to me under the 
name of M. monogynus. 
3. Melodinus suaveolens, Champ.; cymis terminalibus, corolle lobis 
HL suborbiculato-falcatis (fere dolabriformibus) hinc bidentatis, corona 
-~ campanulata semi-5-fida lobis integris, bacca globosa.—Zycimna 
suaveolens, Hance in Walp. Ann. Bot. vol. iii. p. 31.—o/ia quam in 
M. monogyno breviora et latiora. Flores ejusdem magnitudine, sed 
forma loborum valde diversa. Corona tubum linea una superans, 
squamis constanter ad medium connatis. 
All the above Melodini require further examination of a considerable 
number of individuals from different localities, to ascertain the specific 
value of the distinctions observed. 
Mr. Hance is probably correct in his suggestion, that Oncinus of 
Loureiro, hitherto considered as a doubtful Myrsinea, must be allied 
to, if not a species of, Melodinus. 
4. Leuconotis, sp. n. ? s 
Of this curious-looking plant I have only small side-branches, 
gathered by Colonel Eyre, and all in an abnormal proliferous state. 
I refer them to Leuconotis on account of the tetramerous flowers, caly- — 
cine glands, hypocrateriform corolla, without scales in the throat, and 
bilocular ovarium ; but I am unable to characterize them as a species, 
for I have no stem-leaves, and the corollas are green and herbaceous, 
and therefore probably in an abnormal state, although bearing stamina, 
apparently perfect. These specimens are two or three inches long and, 
from their ramification, are probably proliferous inflorescences. In the —— 
lower part they bear a few flowers with a short tube to the corolla, and 
obovate green lobes about three lines long, and four stamens inserted 
in the mouth of the tube, an exceedingly short annular dise round the — 
ovary, the style shorter than the corolla, and bifid at the apex, several 
minute ovules in each cell of the ovary. The leafy branches all pro- 
ceed from the centre of a flower, of which the calyx is unaltered, the 
lobes of the corolla form a verticil of four obovate equal leaves round 
the base of the branch, there are no stamens, and the upper part of 
the branch is crowded with leaves. These are opposite, obovate or 
oblong, obtuse, membranaceous, 9 to 15 lines long, and sessile, but very 
much narrowed at the base. Immediately above each pair, and alternat- — 
ing with them, are a pair of reduced leaves or scales, very short and — — 
