Puate 2628. 
SLOANEA HONGKONGENSIS, /ems/. 
TILIACEAE, 
_ 8. hongkongensis, Hemsl. (sp. nov.) ; foliis graciliter petiolatis 
integris, fructu aculeis longis undique instructo. 
Arbor circiter 15-pedalis (Ford), preter flores glabra, ramulis flori- 
feris rectis rigidis. Folia ad apices ramulorum conferta, longe petiolata, 
vix coriacea, lanceolata vel oblanceolata, absque petiolo 2-4 poll. 
longa, integra, acuminata sed vix acuta, basi subcuneata, venis 
petioli usque ad 1} poll. longi, apice leviter incrassati. Flores nu- 
tantes, 6-8 lin. diametro, in axillis foliorum 7-9 su eriorum solitarii 
vel in corymbos subterminales dispositi ; pedunculi 9-12 lin. longi, 
Sepa ice i 
to) . . 
post dehiscentiam divaricatis diu persistentibus ; semina in quoque 
loculo sepius 4-5, arillo carnoso aurantiaco usque ad medium vestita. 
Honexone : Happy Valley and Aberdeen New Road, W. J. Tutcher, 
Herb. Hongkong, 611 (1895), and C. Ford, 1898, without number. 
Kew is indebted to Mr. C. Ford, Superintendent of the Hongkong 
Botanic Garden, for the excellent and copious specimens from which 
the accompanying plate was prepared. 
With regard to the generic name adopted, I have followed the 
late Sir Ferdinand von Mueller and other botanists in regarding 
Echinocarpus of the Old World as not being generically distinct from 
the American Sloanea. The distinctive characters of these genera, as 
Was supposed to differ from the others in having arillate seeds ; a cha- 
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