310 DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW. PLANTS 
pallida, reticulata, supra viridia, 41—5 poll. longa, 15-22 lin. lata : 
petiolus subtus connexus, supra canaliculatus, 4 lin. longus. Stipule 
ad basim petiolorum 2, ovate, acute, margine scariosze, ciliolatæ, 2 lin. 
longs, deciduæ. Paniculi terminales, trichotomi-corymbosi, folio bre- 
viores. Flores pedicellati, pedicellis teretibus, apice incrassatis, 2 lin. 
fere longis, basi bracteolatis, bracteolis parvis, ovatis, acutis, ciliolatis, 
deciduis. Calyx coloratus, profunde 5-partitus, laciniis valde ineequali- 
bus, 2 exter. minoribus, oblongis, obtusis, :estivatione imbricatis. — Co- 
rolle petala 5, sub disco hypogyno annulari 10-crenato inserta, oblonga, 
calycis laciniis alterna et subzequilonga, sstivatione imbricata, sub 
anthesin erecta. Stamina 5, cum petalis inserta, iisdem alterna : fila- 
menta complanata, puberula; anthere introrse, ovato-oblonge, basi 
cordatze, dorso adfixee, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovaria 3, sessilia, 
fere totam longitudinem coalita. Ovula juxta suturam ventralem 8, | 
biseriata, horizontalia. Styli 3, filiformes, coaliti, pilosiusculi. Stig- 
mata subcapitata. 
The simple leaves well distinguish this very interesting species from 
all hitherto described ones. 
CELASTRACEX. 
Catha Benthamii, Gardn. et Champ. ; inermis, ramis minute verrucosis, 
ramulis subflexuosis foliosis, foliis alternis oblongis vel obovato- 
ellipticis acuminatis basi acutis calloso-serratis supra nitidis, pedun- 
culis axillaribus folio triplo brevioribus compressis striatis apice sub- 
7-floris, floribus subcorymbosis breviter pedicellatis, capsulà obovata 
subtrigoná. 
Catha monosperma, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1. p. 483. 
AB. Hong-Kong. 
Frutex scandens? Folia pennivenia, supra viridia, subtus pallida et 
grosse reticulata, 3-34 poll. longa, 15-20 lin. lata: petiolus subtus 
convexus, supra canaliculatus. Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis laté ovatis, 
obtusis. Petala ovato-oblonga, obtusa. Anthere ovate, minuté pur- 
ureo-punetatz, biloeulares, loculis basi sejunctis, longitudinaliter de- 
hiscentibus. ipsula coriacea, subtrigona, 9 lin. longa, loculicide tri- 
valvis, valvis demum reflexis, abortu mo osperma. 
Bentham, in his enumeration of the plants collected by Mr. Hinds in 
Hong-Kong, in Hooker’s “London Journal of Botany," i., p. 483. 
refers this plant to the Celastrus monospermus of Roxburgh; but on 
