258 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF SUSSEX. 
a closer examination may bring to light some additional extra-Poly- 
nesian species. It has been so long assumed that Smilax has always 
6 stamens, that nobody has taken the trouble to look if any species 
had more or fewer. I have pointed out several species which have more 
than 6, and in my ‘ Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald,’ p. 420, 
one which has fewer than 6, and which I now make the type of a 
new genus; viz. :— 
OLIGOSMILAX, Seem. (gen. nov.). Flores diclini. Fl. d: Peri- 
gonium corollinum, 3-phyllum, foliolis erectis subconnatis, cestivatione 
valvatis. Stamina 3, monadelpha ; antherz ovate, acute, longitudi- 
naliter dehiscentes. 9 Fl. ign. Bacca subglobosa, 3-(per excessum 
4-)loeulare, 3—4-sperma. Semina ovata. Embryo antitropus, mini- 
mus, in extremitate albuminis cornei umbilico opposita inclusus.— 
Suffrutex Chinensis, inermis, scandens, glaber, ramis striatis, ramulis 
subangulatis, foliis cordatis v. ovatis acuminatis 5—9-nerviis ; umbellis 
axillaribus solitariis ; pedunculis ebracteatis. Species unica :— 
1. O. Gaudichaudiana, Seem. (Tab. LXXXIIL).—Smilaz Gaudi- 
chaudiana, Kth. Enum. v. p. 252 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 370; S. Hong- 
kongensis, Seem. Bot. Herald, p- 420. —Hongkong, trailing over shrubs 
(Hance! Seemann!). Also collected in southern China by Gaudichaud 
and Besser. 
This plant, an analysis of which was made by Dr. J. D. Hooker, I 
originally intended to figure in my ‘Botany of H.M.S. Herald,’ but 
was unable to do so, as the full number of ~ plates had already been 
reached, 
ExPLAN - 
chaudia iu: Bau trom specimen kindly ores, cee) Hi x Ta 
branch with male severe 2. Male flower-bud. 3. elaid open. 4. 
2 anth an Umbel with ripe fruit. 6 and 7. Ripe Hubs od across. Sand 
9. Seeds. ha nepiemin 11. Emb Figs . 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 
0,1, 402.31 maple " d E ge 
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF SUSSEX. 
Bx W. B. HEMSLEY, Esq. 
(Concluded from p. 196.) 
To facilitate reference, those species in the following enumeration 
that are new to the county, either as segregates or otherwise, have an (*) 
placed before them, and those considered doubtful by Watson, a (?). 
