428 LV. HAMAMELIDB^:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Corylopsis. 



About 6 ft. high; bark lenticelled. Leaves 4 in., round-ovate and acute, or 

 smaller and narrower, often cordate at base with a petiole -l in., plicate, glabrous 

 above, pilose silky or tomentose beneath ; nerves straight, parallel, prominent. 

 Petals obovate or elliptic, unguiculate, yellow- white. C. multiflora, Hance, from the 

 tea districts of Fokien. hardly differs except that the nerves of the leaves are much 

 fewer and wider apart, and that the petals have a very long claw and round limb. 



5. LOROFETALU1VI, Br. 



A much branching woody shrub. Leaves alternate, oblong, entire, persis- 

 tent ; stipules membranous, soon deciduous. Flower-heads peduncled, quasi- 

 terminal, ebracteate, of 6-8 sessile^Zowers. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, limb 

 of 4 valvate lobes. Petals 4, perigynous, linear, circinate in aestivation. Stamens 

 4, perigynous, filaments very short, connective produced as a horn. Hypogy- 

 nous scales 4, very small. Ovary half-inferior, 2- celled; styles 2, distinct, soon 

 divergent ; ovules in each cell 1, pendulous. Capsule woody, ovoid, endocarp 

 horny, separating from the exocarp. Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, testa black 

 shining. 



Zi. chinense, Olio, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 459. Hamamelis chinen- 

 sis, Br. in Abel China, 375, with a figure ; suggesting the new genus Loropetalum. 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 269 ; H.f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 85. 



KHASIA MTS. alt. 4000-5000 ft. ; J. D. H. $ T. Thomson. Disimv. South China. 



Twigs and inflorescence with much stellate pubescence. Leaves l-2 in. long, stellate- 

 hairy on both surfaces (small in the Chinese specimens), acute, from a rounded 

 base ; petiole ^ in. long. Petals - | in. long, 4 or 5 times the sepals, yellowish. 

 Anthers short, the edges of the valves bent in to meet the connective, so that the 

 young stamen has 4 pseudo-cells ; the valves open from the connective and soon after 

 drop off altogether. 



6. 1KAXNGAYA, Oliver. 



A tree. Leaves alternate, undivided, petioled, persistent ; stipules small, deci- 

 duous. Heads peduncled, quasi-terminal, ebracteate, of about 15 flowers. Calyx- 

 tube adherent to the ovary ; the limb closed, splitting up on one side a little 

 way from the base and then circumscissile deciduous in a cap. Petals 5, peri- 

 gynous, linear, circinate in aestivation. Stamens 5, perigynous, filaments very 

 short, connective produced as a horn. Scales about 10, very small. Ovary half- 

 inferior, 2-celled; styles 2 distinct, short; ovule 1 in each cell, pendulous. 

 Capsule woody, ovoid, endocarp horny, separating from the exocarp. Seeds 

 unknown. 



1. XK. malayana, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 517, t. 44. 



PENANG; Maingay, No. 1871. 



A tall tree with rather small stem (ex Maingay), glabrous, the innovations ped- 

 uncles and calyx with stellate hairs. leaves 3-5 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, petiole 

 -f in. long glabrous. Petals ^-| in. long, 4-6 times the sepals. Dehiscing capsule 

 \ in. long and in. broad. Maingay a differs from Loropetalum in the 5 not 4 petals, 

 in the habit, but particularly in the calyx-limb circumscissile falling off in a cap be- 

 fore the flower expands. 



