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it grows amongst rocks and ravines. Its pretty pendulous flowers come out about 

 January. 



Thea Bohea, Linn., is cultivated in Hong Kong, but is not indigenous to it. It fre- 

 quently forms borders to garden beds, just as we employ the Box. As a genus there 

 seems to be no good distinction from Camellia. 



Genus Etjrva, Thunb. 



1. Eurya Macabtneyi ; dioica frutescens glabra, foliis majusculis coriaceis subellipticis 



margine revolutis serrulatis, floribus majusculis ; <J staminibus 19-22 ; ? stylis 

 distinctis revolutis, fructibus purpureis, circiter 14-spermis. 

 Hab. in insula Hong Kong, Sinarum, in sylvis rupibusque. Floret et fructus fert ab Augusto usque ad 

 Novembrem. 



It is easily distinguished from 2$. Japonica, Thunb., by its larger (4 in. 2 lin. by 1 in. 

 7 lin.), more slightly serrated and revolutely margined leaves, their venation (grossly 

 reticulated), and the size of its flowers ; also by the styles of the female flowers being free 

 to near their base. There are frequently black glands on the under part of the leaf. The 

 male flowers are 3^-4 lines in diameter, 2-5 on each peduncle, and slightly fragrant. Sepals 

 orbicular, purplish, fimbriated, emarginate. Petals oblong-obovate, obtuse, white ; patent 

 in the male and revolute in the female flowers ; the latter only 1^ to If line in diameter. 

 Male flowers without remains of an ovary. Anthers oblong, shortly apiculate. The petals 

 are united at base into a tube, like those of Symplocos. The ovary of the female is 3-celled, 

 each cell 5-10-ovuled ; the ovules in place of being suspended are attached horizontally to 

 the central axis. 



It is a shrub 6 to 8 feet high, and as a species comes near to E. elliptica of Gardner. 



This species has also been brought from China by Lord Macartney, and exists without 

 name in the Herbarium of the British Museum. 



2. Eurya Japonica, Thunb. 

 Eurya Chinensis, B. Br. 



These two species I find mixed up indiscriminately in my collection, and believe them 

 to be identical. It is a species subject to considerable variety, flowering profusely about 

 October. 



The fruit is dark purple, and the size of a pea, 9-10, or, in poor specimens, fewer- 

 seeded, and crowned by the styles, which remain, even then, combined two-thirds of their 

 length ; their revolute free portions eventually falling off. 



The male flowers are first greenish, then white, and have a nauseous smell ; 2-3 together 

 on each peduncle, and 2f-3f lines in diameter. Stamina 13-15 in one series. Ovary 

 of the male flowers abortive with remains of one style. Specimens grown on barren hills 

 are fewer-flowered than those growing in damp woods, and often smaller-leafed, and then 

 constitute Mr. Brown's E. Chinensis, collected by Abel. The fruit is pea-shaped, 3-celled 

 with about 3 seeds in each cell, attached at first to a placenta suspended from the apex 

 of the axis. The berry is then succulent and nearly dry ; finally, it becomes filled with 



