PLANTS OF HONG KONG. 115 



flowers are sweet-scented, and nearly 3 inches in diameter. Its capsule large and woody. 

 Flowers in autumn, in cold weather. 



Genus Schima, Reinw. 

 1. S. stjperba, Gardn. & Champ. 



Already described in Hooker's ' Journal of Botany,' No. 8. p. 246. Flowers in May, 

 and fruits in October to December. Its bunches of large white flowers resemble Mesua at 

 a distance. The fruit is nearly 10 lines in diameter, subglobose and splits into 5 valves, 

 each containing 3 compressed reniform seeds. The embryo is curved, radicle terete, coty- 

 ledons large, and conforming to the shape of the seed. 



A very rare tree in Hong Kong, except in the woods near the top of the slopes over 

 Little Hong Kong, where it grows abundantly. 



Genus Cleyera, Thunb. 



1. Cleyera fragrans ; arborea, tota glabra, ramulis di-tri-chotomis, foliis lanceolatis 



margine integriusculis leviter revolutis coriaceis, ramulis floribundioribus, floribus 

 axillaribus pallidis fragrantibus fugacibus solitariis bibracteolatis, sepalis fimbriatis 

 petalisque glabris parvis, staminibus brevibus glabris ; connectivo acuto, stylis 2 pro- 

 fundi divisis; stigmatibus reniformibus, fructibus globosis diametro subsemi-unci- 

 alibus. 

 Hub. in insula Hong Kong, Sinarum, in sylvis. FL Maio et Octobri. Fruct. Octobri et Novembri. 



A small tree, with numerous sweet-smelling pale yellow flowers, which blow in the 

 morning and fall off before evening ; the petals are combined into a ring, and are 2^-2^- 

 lines in length. The leaves (about 3 inches long by 13 lines broad) are bright green 

 above, pale or rust-coloured beneath. Peduncles longish, reflexed, 1-flowered. Sepals 5, 

 oblong, fimbriately crenated. Bracteoles 2, ovate, fimbriated on the margin. Petals 

 gamopetalous, oblong-emarginate, smooth, margin uneven. Stamina very numerous, 

 filaments about a line long. Anthers bursting longitudinally ; connective small, acumi- 

 nated. Ovary conical, 2-celled ; each cell with 2-3 collateral pendulous ovules. Style 

 profoundly cleft ; stigmas reniform. 



Fruit usually 5 lines in diameter, dry and finally hard, orange-brown with reddish 

 spots, globose, 2-celled, each cell 1-2-seeded. Seeds thickish, small (2\ lines long), and 

 covered with a thin coating of oily scarlet mucilage, dying as in Bixa. Testa hard and 

 bony, with a conduplicate embryo ; radicle terete ; cotyledons plano-cylindric. 



This may prove to be an Anneslea, Dr. Wallich's genus ; his species is described with 

 a 3-celled ovary. This tree constitutes much of the woods of Hong Kong. 



2. Cleyera dtjbia ; frutescens, tota glabra, foliis lanceolatis margine integriusculis laeviter 



revolutis coriaceis, floribus majoribus (8£ lin. diametro) axillaribus pallidis bibrac- 

 teolatis, sepalis fimbriatis petalisque glabris, staminibus brevibus ; connectivo acuto, 

 stylo ssepius trifido, fructibus globosis diametro supra-uncialibus. 

 Hab. in insula Hong Kong, Sinarum, in Monte Victoria. Floret Februario et Martio. Fruct. Junio. 



