Hedyotis?^ rubiace.e. 149 



climbing than the last, which it resembles in many respects. Branches terete, 

 or scarcely angular. Stipules triangular and entire. Leaves lanceolate, like 

 those of H. acutangula, but narrower, and more evidently stalked. Inflores- 

 cence the same, but looser; the flowers more slender, on short pedicels. Corolla- 

 tube Ml 1|- lines long, the lobes about 1 line, the throat scarcely hairy. 

 Ovary as in the last species, but I have not seen the ripe capsule. 



Hongkong, Harland ? S. China, near Macao, Vachell and Beechey. I describe this 

 from the Macao specimens, with which I had identified one from Hongkong in the hitc Dr. 

 Harland's collection, not now before me to compare. I had named it H. scandens, Roxb., 

 under the erroneous impression that Vachell's plant was that species. Roxburgh's plant, a 

 common Khasia one, is, however, quite different, belonging to the section Dimetia, hitherto 

 unrepresented in China. 



4. H. loganioides, Benth., n. sp. Apparently an ascending or erect 

 perennial, our specimens above a foot long, and quite glabrous ; the branches 

 terete or obtusely angular, or compressed when young. I^eaves oblong or 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends, 1 to 2 in. long, and i to f in. broad, or rather 

 longer in some specimens, not unlike those of Loganla Jloribuuda, without 

 prominent veins except the midrib, on petioles of one or 2 lines. Stipules 

 ovate, entire. Peduncles axillary, 2 to 6 lines long, bearing a trichotomous 

 cyme of 10 to 20 flowers. Flowers scarcely 2 lines long, glabrous. Calyx- 

 lobes linear, rather shorter than the corolla. Corolla-tube short and slender, 

 without any hairs inside. Capsule about 1 line long, cro^\^ied by the calyx- 

 lobes ; the 2 carpels separating to the base, and opening mde by a fissm-e on 

 the inner face. Ovules numerous, but only a few of them appear to ripen 

 into perfect seeds. 



On the top of Mount Gough, Wilford ; also Wright. We have apparently the same species 

 from Moulmeyn {Lohb). It comes nearest amongst published ones to the H. obscura,T\iyf ., 

 of Ceylon, but in that one the stipules are pectinate, and the corolla hairy inside at the 

 throat. 



5. H. uncinella. Hook, and Am. Bot. Beech. 192. A glabrous peren- 

 nial, the stems weak and ascending, or perhaps climbing, and acutely angular. 

 Stipules triangular, fringed with subulate teeth. Leaves oblong or ovate- 

 lanceolate, about 1 to 2 in. long, with few veins. Flowers about 2 lines long, 

 in dense sessile clusters, forming a giobidar terminal head of 6 to 8 lines 

 diameter, and two or tlu-ee distant globular whorls in the upper axils. Calyx- 

 lobes oblong-linear, obtuse, about as long as the corolla. Capsules crowned 

 by the calyx, opening inwards in 2 carpels like the last species. — H. hor- 

 rer'ioides. Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 171 . H. ceplialopliora, Wall. Catal. 

 n. 842? 



Common in the neighbourhood of Chukchow, but not on the Victoria side of Hongkong, 

 Champion ; Putoy Island, Wright ; also S. China, and probably Khasia, 



We have three forms of this plant, which have been severally considered as distinct species, 

 but are probably varieties of the same. Our specimens are, however, not as yet sulllcicnt to 

 determine the question satisfactorily. The original ones of //. iincnwlla, Hook, and Arn., 

 from S. China, are far advanced, the leaves are distinctly pctiolate, with the limb tapering at 

 the base, the heads are far advanced in fruit and rather lax, the bracts and calycine lob( s 

 strongly ciliate. In the H. horrerioides, Chamj)., from Hongkong, the leaves are narrower, 

 longer, and more sessile, but much tapering at the base, the heads very compact and perfectly 

 smooth. In the H. cephalophora. Wall., which appears to be frequent iu Khasia, the leaves 



