46 A NEW HONG-KONG MELASTOMACEA. 
nostro sardoo habet apicem sur sum titrant que nota preter 
unc satis ab aliis separat.” (Cran toy The observation 
on _ achenes will be at once understood ‘by a reference to . 
In oie respects the figure quoted fro m Camerarius is a 
saftiiently good feprossntasen: of our plant. reece name is 
quoted also, as a synonym, by Koch and Decando 
. hederaceus. Batrachium hederaceum, Gray, the form with 
floating leaves. 
. heterophyllus. Apparently Bs. antes deen: Gray, but in- 
cluding also a specimen of B. aquatile, Desm 
m Chamedrys. Correctly tliat 
een. 
r. 
Melissa Calamintha. Calamintha ascendens, Jord. This is also 
the Hertfordshire ry and has smaller flowers than C. Nepeta, 
Clairv. Cf. the quoted figure from Blackwell. 
Euphrasia Odontites. Probably Odontites verna, Reich. 
Draba muralis. Correctly named. This was not wii by 
Abbot melts after the publication of his Flora. It seems to have 
occurred as a casual also on the Continent. (Cf. ‘ Grenier Flore de 
la Chaine Jurassique 2. 
Cardamine hirsuta, C. parviflova, and C. fleauosa, With. 
Erodium moschatum. No specimen. The E.B. figure was, 
however, as in the case of Draba muralis, drawn from a plant sent 
by Abbot. 
An unnamed specimen of /. commixtum, Jord., probably repre- 
sents F. rinpietaolion ¢ the Flora. Should not Sibthorp’s name 
be kept up for this plan 
for) 
ye be continued.) 
A NEW HONG-KONG MELASTOMACEA. 
By H. F. Hance, Pu.D., &c. 
Avonest a number of new plants which Mr. Charles Ford, the 
able and energetic ir of the Hong-Kong Botanic 
Gardens, has within the last few years detected, one of the most 
interesting i is the subject of the present notice. It was first met 
with at the close of last March, growing in one locality only, near 
it generally, it sufficed to show that it was different from any 
Chinese Melastomad hitherto recorded. In the middle of July, 
Mr. Ford, who kept his eye steadily on the locality, was rewarded 
by finding the plant in full bloom, and the specimens he placed at 
my disposal showed it to belong to Otanthera, a small genus, of 
