308 DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW PLANTS 
At present I confine myself to a description of the features I observed ; 
and at a future time will give you a more detailed account of the Terai 
Flora as distinguished from that of the plains or mountains above. 
(To be continued.) 
Descriptions of some new Genera and Species of Plants, collected in the 
Island of Hong-Kong by Capt. J. G. Champion, 95th Regt., dy the 
late GEORGE GARDNER, Esq., F.L.S., Superintendent of the Royal 
Botanie Gardens, Ceylon. 
continued from p. 246.) 
OLACACER. 
Schcepfia Chinensis, Gardn. et Champ. ; foliis ovato-oblongis vel ob- 
longo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi acutis, racemis axillaribus solitariis, 
2-4-floris, floribus sessilibus, corolle tubo tereti, lobis acutiusculis. 
Has. Hong-Kong. Rare. 
here cut down — replaced by the less gigantic vegetation I describe ; and th 
none of the e hills which intervene between the plains of India and the aun. 
mica, schists, or gneiss of 2 true mountain range 
All along the S. frontier of Nepal the Terai is is developed on the grendest scale and 
most typical form. Approaching dens th E tells me the prominent 
tures a marshy belt, he Terai proper, found ie the alluvium 
of the plains, at the exit T Serecbdiok of the numerous hill-streams ; it is grassy and 
sedgy, not bushy or jungly. 2nd. Crossing this, the grav vel-bed, gia of the 
pe 
r 
Wit vel-bed and in the forest rise the sandstone hills: these I did not, as I 
said b ^ n g my hurried walk across Terai; but they may 
form the nucleus of the flat-tipped spur I there ascended. In the Nepal Terai these 
d s rise in sharpe , are naked-topped, or covered with 
the gravel or Sal fores 0 longifolia etimes grows on the drier heights, 
a ean elevation is 2000 feet. In some c ese low ranges 
parallel to the in, and enclose transverse valleys ( . and 
are v feat S» M TR a; th e " Dheyra 
n A Such valleys are floored wi vel, similar to t e Terai: they 
e between two bat id binc ridges of es sandstone, or have this 
roc men w their southern boun Hes s ae rus or slates of the 
sub-Himalaya, for their —— ipse the. hills which rise 
uniformly here to heights of 8, 10, nd à 13000 feet, rarely more or less, and 
range. 
which flank the T rai vegetation, or hot, low tropical veg 
n, pa l then commencing from the the plains, 
w^ we dui in genos dot, all the gravel ; whether that be on a flat sur- 
sueceeded 
e central temperate Him veh region irm when he seachet, the 
ake may account himself safe, and above the pestilential district. 
