490 Linnaan Society. 



persDns unaccustomed to its use. With regard to the Indian-bread, 

 called by the Carancahua Indians Toqui, Mr. BoUaert states that he 

 found it in great abundance in the pine-woods of Huntsville, lat. 31° 

 N., long. 95° 30' W. The edible part is the root: immediately 

 below the stem commences the formation of irregularly-shaped 

 potato-hke tubers, rather larger than the potato, and so abundant 

 that one plant will yield two bushels. These are used by the Indians 

 made into a sort of bread ; and the pioneer, trapper and backwoods- 

 man are frequently obliged to have recourse to it for the same pur- 

 pose, and sometimes obtain from it by fermentation a liquor of a 

 pink colour to which they give the name of beer. Of this plant, 

 and of the mode of growth of its tubers, sketches accompanied the 

 paper, which concludes with a notice of some of the botanists who 

 have visited the State of Texas for the purpose of collecting plants, 

 and with a list of the plants collected by Mr. Lindheimer in his 

 Earlier Journey, and by Dr. Kenan. 



November 5. — Robert Brown, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders, F.L.S., exhibited specimens and a drawing 

 of a species of Cyclamen (probably C. hedercefoliitm, Dec), found by 

 him in the neighbourhood of Hastings ; he regards it as undoubtedly 

 wild. 



Read a Paper on " The Ternstrcemiaceous Plants of Hong Kong." 

 By Capt. Champion, 95th Regiment. 



The author commences by referring to the number and beauty of 

 the trees and shrubs of this family which are natives of India and 

 China ; and suggests that the elevation at which they are generally 

 found, flowering in China alongside of the Azaleas which have been 

 so successfully introduced into England, indicates that many of them 

 might also be advantageously cultivated here as hardy or half-hardy 

 plants. He then proceeds to the enumeration of the species which 

 have been found in the small island of Hong Kong. 



1. Camellia spectabilis; arborea, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis glahris 

 crenatis subtiis reticulatis, floribus solitaiiis (magnis albis) axillaribus 

 et siibtevminalibus, sepabs coriaceis fructibusque (pomi magiiitudinc) 

 seviceis. 



Uab. in Insula Sinensi Hong Kong, in sylvis. 



2. Camellia Japonica, L. 'Sp. PL 982. 



Of this species Capt. Champion states that but two trees are at 

 present known growing wild in Hong Kong ; they were discovered 

 by Col. Eyre, R.A., and are loaded in October with single pink 

 flowers. The leaves are more elongate than in most cultivated 

 plants. 



3. Camellia salicifoi.ia ; arbuscula, ran.ulis pnbcscentibus (lexiiosis, 

 foliis snbsessilibus clongato-ovatis atuniiiiatis sonalis pubcsceiitibus, 

 floribus paivulis (albis), sepalis acuminatis piibcsccutibus, capsuhsgia-- 

 bris parxis rostratis 1-3- saepius 1-speriiiis. 



Hab. ill Insula Sinensi (long Kong, in sylvis. 



