476 ASPECT, CLIMATE, AND 
species; if not, our former name of M. epacridea may be 
retained for it is quite as appropriate. Branches thick, dark 
brown or black, bearing numerous small tubercles at the 
cicatrices of the fallen leaves, dividing at the extremity into 
several approximate, almost umbelliform, short, pubescent 
branchlets, thickly covered with sessile, coriaceous leaves of 
a pale yellowish-green colour, and of an ovate acuminate 
form, measuring 5-6 lines in length, and below the middle 
1-3 lines in breadth. They are perfectly glabrous, without 
ciliæ and more or less wrinkled; their upper face is deeply 
concave, the dorsal one marked with a rather strong nerve, 
which runs out into a strong, sharp, and straight brownish 
mucro; in the young state they are semi-erect, and almost 
imbricate, being scarcely distant one line from each other, 
but afterwards they become quite patent, and their axils 
frequently bear a fascicle of two or three smaller complicated 
leaves. The axillary, solitary and perfectly sessile flowers 
are scarcely 24 lines long, the sepals minute, (half a line), 
obtuse, without a mucro and uncoloured, the corolla about 
three times longer, pink, the upper petals nearly as long as 
the carina; capsule obliquely ovate (the bottom of one cell 
reaching a little farther down than the other) as long as the 
four erect styles, which are compressed and dilated at the 
base, especially that on the upper side, which runs down on 
the margin of the fruit, in the form of a minute evanescent 
wing. The immature ovary shows but two styles, each of 
which afterwards splits in two, as is probably the case in 
many, if not all, the other species. 
(To be continued.) 
Remarks on the physical aspect, climate, and vegetation of 
Hong-Kong, China, by Ricuarp Brinsuey Hinps, Sur- 
geon, R.N. ; with an enumeration of plants there collected ; 
determined and described by GeonaE BENTHAM, Esa. 
'The island of Hong Kong is one of several at the en- 
