Clematis, .] ranunculace^. - 7 



Common in ravines, Champion and others ; frequent also on the continent of China, ex- 

 tending northward to Amoy and Loochoo. 



4. C. crassifolia, Benth. n. sp. A perfectly glabrous climber, resembling 

 at first sight the C. Meyeniana, but the leaf-segments are much thicker, always 

 narrowed or wedge-shaped at the base, and mostly very obtuse, the flower 

 somewhat larger, the sepals more acuminate, and the anthers very much shorter, 

 more obtuse, with the filaments elongated as in C. parviloba. 



In a ravine on Victoria Peak, Wilford. Not received from elsewhere. 



The C. ternifolia, DC. (which may be the same as C. chinensis, Rctz, and C. biternatd, 

 DO), and the C. apiifolia, DC, appear both to be common about Amoy, but have not been 

 gathered in the vicinity of Hongkong. 



Order II. DILLENIACE^l. 



Sepals 4 to 6, usually 5, persistent, imbricate in the bud. Petals 5, or 

 rarely fewer, deciduous, imbricate in the bud. Stamens indefinite, hypogy- 

 nous, usually free. Anthers adnate. Ovary of several free and distinct 

 carpels, or rarely single and excentrical, one-celled, with one or more ovules 

 in each. Styles diverging. Ripe carpels either indehiscent and succulent, or 

 capsular, opening along the inner edge at the top. Seeds furnished with an 

 arillus. Embryo very small, at the base of a fleshy albumen. — Trees, shrubs, 

 climbers, or herbs. Leaves alternate. Stipules minute or none. 



A considerable Order, partly tropical both in the New and the Old World, partly Aus- 

 tralian. 



1. DELIMA, Linn. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Filaments dilated at the upper end. Carpel soli- 

 tary, nearly globose, attenuated into a subulate style. Ovules few, ascend- 

 ing. Capsule follicular. Seed solitary, surrounded by a cup-shaped toothed 

 arillus. 



A genus limited to a single species. The American plants formerly referred to it all be- 

 long to Doliocarpus. 



1. D. sarmentosa, Linn. ; Hook, and Thorns. M. Ind. i. 61 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2038. A climber with a woody stem. Leaves varying from obovate to 

 broadly "lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 2. to 5 inches long, entire or serrate-cre- 

 nate, very scabrous, and sprinkled on both sides as well as the branches with 

 appressed hairs. Flowers white, 3 to 4 lines diameter, in broad many-flowered 

 panicles. — Leontoglossum scabrum, Hance in Walp. Ann. ii. 18; iii. 812. 



Common in Hongkong, Champion and others. Widely diffused over western and eastern 

 India and the Archipelago, extending northwards to the Philippines, S. China, and Assam, 

 and westward to Ceylon. 



Order III. MAGNOLIACE^l. 



Sepals and petals usually numerous, hypogynous, imbricate in the bud, in 

 several series of 3 (rarely 5) each, and passing gradually one into the other. 

 Stamens indefinite, hypogynous. Anthers adnate. Carpels several, either 

 free or cohering laterally to each other, usually spicate on the torus. Ovides 



