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. SUPERBA, 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- 
fundé divisis; stigmatibus reniformibus, fructibus globosis diametro subsemi-unci- 
alibus. 
Hab. 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 21-21 
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 2-8 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 (24 lines long), and 
covered with a thin coating of oily scarlet mucilage, dying as in Biva. 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 DUBIA ; frutescens, tota glabra, foliis lanceolatis margine integriusculis leviter 
revolutis coriaceis, floribus majoribus (84 lin. diametro) axillaribus pallidis bibrac- 
teolatis, sepalis fimbriatis petalisque glabris, staminibus brevibus ; connectivo acuto, 
stylo sæpiùs trifido, fructibus globosis diametro supra-uncialibus. | 
Hab. in insulä Hong Kong, Sinarum, in Monte Victoria. Floret Februario et Martio. Fruct. Junio. 
