NOTE ON DELIMA. 115 
In herbosis ad caeumina montium Pakwan, supra Cantonem, ipse 
legi, d. 12 Julii 1867 (Exsicc. n. 14,113) 
Plantam nostram, indumento foliorumque forma certe distinctissi- 
mam, non tantum cum speciebus continentis Indiz et Zeylania, sed 
etiam eum plerisque earum ab amico Maximowiczio, in egregia com- 
mentatione ‘De Rhamneis Orientali-Asiaticis’ * recensitarum, com- 
paravi. Fructu licet etiamnum ignoto, de sectione,—habitu, stylo 
indiviso, ovulorumque fabrica (difficile ob minutiem tandem explorata) 
ponderatis,—minime dubito; ac inter commilitones probabiliter magis 
R. Frangule nostrati quam aliis est affinis, nisi forte R. grandifolia, 
F. et M.—mihi quidem non note,—propior. Petala fere qualia R. 
caroliniane a Spragueo depicta (A. Gray, Gen. Pl. U.S. ii. tab. 167), 
sed sinu profundiore ac paulo angustiore lateribusque extus magis ob- 
lique truncatis invenio. 
NOTE ON DELIMA, Linn. 
Bx H. F Hance, Pn.D. 
Bentham and Hooker, in thé * Genera Plantarum,' retain the genus 
Delima, distinguishing it from Zetracera by its 2-3 ovules and soli- 
tary carpel. But Delima sarmentosa, as remarked by Planchon and 
Triana (Ann. Sc. Nat. 4me sér. xvii. 20), has very frequently a large 
number of ovules, as I have repeatedly observed ; and it was, indeed, 
from noticing this circumstance, and relying on the accuracy of the 
character assigned to Delima by authors, that fifteen years ago, when 
my acquaintance with plants was far more limited than at present, I 
described the plant under the name of Leontoglossum. Since, more- 
over, several genuine Zetracere have only 3 or 4 ovules, whilst in 
others they are indefinite, and 7. sessiliflora and T. (Delimopsis) hir- 
suta have a solitary carpel, it is manifest that these genera must be re- 
united, as proposed by Planchon and Triana. 
* Dolendum est, hac in reg diatribe, virum ornati 
quodam R. utilem et R. chlorophoram, a docto Decaisneo i hp pree Popek 
quod inscribitur * Notice du ve rt de hine’ descriptas Arianos a solerti 
Riocreuxii manu nitide depictas, omnino preetermisisse. 
