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Descriptions of some new Genera and Species of Plants, collected in the 
Island of Hong-Kong by Capt. J. Ge Champion, 95th Regt., dy the 
late GRORGE Garpyer, Esq., F.L.S., Superintendent of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Ceylon. 
(Continued from p. 320.) 
The following is the modification of the character of the Order which 
I propose, to which are added the tribes and sections into which the 
genera naturally resolve themselves. The genera of the tribe Brunieæ 
are not subdivided, my materials not being sufficient to enable me to 
HAMAMELIDACE4. 
HaMAMELIDEE, R. Br. in Abels Voy.—BRUNIACEA, R. Br. in eadem. 
—BarsawiIFLORE, Bl. in Flor. Jave. —HELWINGIACER, Decaisne in 
Nouv. Ann, des Sc. Nat. vol. vi. p. 68.—GRUBBIACEE, Endl. Enchirid. 
p. 403.—OPHIRIACE®, Arnott in Hook. Jour. Bot. vol. iii. p. 266. 
Frutices vel arbuscula, rarius arbores vaste, ramulis teretibus sæpe 
pube stellata conspersis. Folia alterna, petiolata, penninervia, integer- 
rima vel sinuato-dentata, aut sepe acerosa, sessilia et imbricata. 
Stipule aut nulle, aut ad basin petiolorum geminz, deciduæ, inter- 
dum inzquales. Flores hermaphroditi vel abortu diclines aut polygami, 
terminales vel axillares, subsessiles, fasciculati, capitati vel spicati, 
sepius bracteati. Calyx tubo ovario plus minus adhserens, rarissime 
liber, limbo quadrifido vel quinquifido aut partito, persistente vel de- 
ciduo, lobis per eestivationem imbricatis, rarissime obsolete repando- 
dentato. Torus in laminam tenuem, tubum calycis cum ovario con- 
nectentem vel ovarium obducentem expansus, rarissime in discum 
epigynum effusus. rolla nune nulla, nune petala calycis fauce in- 
serta, ejusdem lobis alterna, nune unguiculata, spathulata, nuuc 
Miete libera vel rarissime mediantibus staminibus basi 
n tubum cohzerentia, per zstivationem imbricata, decidua vel rarius 
marcescenti-persistentia. Stamina cum petalis inserta, nune iisdem 
numero zequalia, nunc duplo, Siu petalis opposita semper sterilia, 
squamuleformia, nune subindefin Filamenta nunc brevia, basi 
dilatata, nune filiformia vel erm libera vel interdum petalorum 
Anthere introrse, rarissime extrorse, bilo- 
unguibus basi adglutinata. 
culares, erectze vel.incumbentes, loculis oppositis, utrinque connectivo, 
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