SHORT NOTES. 369 
ON A NEW SYMPLOCOS. 
By H. F. Hance, Ph D., ere. 
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rotundatis 3 lin. longis candidis, staminum corollam vix excedentium 
filamentis ligulatis, ovarii apice glaberrimo. (Exsice. n. 18417. 
Cultivated in the Public Gardens, Hongkong, where I gathered it 
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Unfortunately, it is impossible to place any reliance on the statements 
of these men, and it seems unlikely so exceedingly showy a shrub 
should have escaped the notice of our few local botanists. However 
this may be, it is doubtless an Asiatic species, and with some affinity 
to S. obtusa, Wall., and probably S. prunifolia, S. & Z., which I have 
not seen. ‘qponica, A.DC. and S. crassifolia, Benth. (the latter 
also unknown to me), differ by their angular branches. I can find no 
diagnosis at all like it in any books, and it is by far the handsomest 
ecies I have seen, its lovely white blossoms being borne so profusely 
as to attract the attention of the most careless. 
SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
ANNICHELLIA WITH sPIRAL FRrurTs.—A very singular change in 
the fruit of Zannichellia has lately come under my notice in a 
specimen (probably Z. palustris) in the Kew Herbarium. In place of 
the slightly-arched carpels with a terminal style typical of the genus, 
the plant presents circular fruits which may be accurately described 
“as precisely like the coiled shells of a small Planorbis. At the 
opposite side of the attachment is a prominence indicating apparently 
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enclosed body much resembling the green spiral embryo of Sueda 
maritima. In this Zannichellia the embryo instead of being thrice 
folded on itself at an acute angle as usual is perfectly spiral and is 
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