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1. T. subcordatnm, 'BentU., n. sp. A shrub of 3 ft., glabrous except 

 the inflorescence. Leaves alternate, ovate, or broadly elliptical, 3 to. 4. in. 

 long, shortly acuminate, entire or with a few minute distant glandulgi- teeth, 

 broadly aud slightly cordate at the base, rather thick, with prominent pinnate 

 veins, on petioles of 3 to 6 lines. Peduncles axiUaiy, soUtaiy, 2 or 3 lines 

 long, with a few small fringed scales or bracts at the base. Flower-heads 

 solitary, globular, 4 or 5 fines diameter, sKghtly hoary, with a few minute 

 linear entire or fringed bracts under the flowers. Flowers about 30, closely 

 sessile, small. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, about 1 Kne'long. Stamens rather 

 shorter ; the anthers nearly square; crowned by long points, with 4 persistent 

 door-Uke valves, as in Hamamelis. Styles glabrous, shorter than the stamens. 



A bush, once seen on the Black Mountain, Wilford, from which we have several speci- 

 mens, but it has not been received from any other collector- 11 has the habit of Eustigma, 

 bnt differs in the sestivation of the calyx and in the form of the petal-scales, stamens, aud 

 styles. 



5. DISTYLIUM, Sieb. and Zucc. 



Sepals 8 to 5, free, unequal, imbricate in the bud. Petals none. Stamens 

 3 to 8 ; anthers oblong, opening longitudinally. Ovaiy superior, 3-lobed, 

 3-ceUed, with 1 pendulous (or laterally attached?) ovule in each- cell. Styles 

 3, subulate. Capsule ovoid or oblong, the. carpels separating at the top, and 

 opening in 3 valves. — Trees or shnibs. Flowers polygamous, in short ax- 

 illary racemes. ■ .... 



A small Asiatic genus, whose affinities have not as yet been satisfactorily established. . The 

 superior ovary scarcely admits of its being retained among Hamamelideee, which it resem- 

 bles in other respects. 



1. D. racemosum, Sieb. ard Zucc. Fl. Tap. i. 178, ^. 94 ? A glabrous 

 shrub. Leaves alternate, nairow-oblong, obtuse or somewhat acute, 1^ to 

 3t in. long, narrowed at the base into a petiole of 3 to 5 lines, thickly co- 

 riaceous. Racemes I" to 1 in. long, the upper flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 

 about 1 line long. Anthers exserted, oblong, red, foUy 1 line long. Ovary 

 short, the styles at least 3 lines, and, both. cohered with stellate hairs. Male 

 flowers smaller, sessile, with shorter stamens. Toung capsules ovoid. Seeds 

 immature in our specimens, but they appear to have very little albumen and a 

 large embryo. 



Hongkong, C^ampjoB, Wright) Wilford. Also in Japan, if the species be, as I believe 

 identical. I have not, however, seen the Japanese specimens. 



Okdee LL UMBELLIFERiE. 



Calyx combined with the ovary, either entirely so or showing a minute 

 border round the summit, with 6 small teeth. Petals 5, inserted round an 

 epigynous disk. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals. Ovary inferior, 

 3-celled, with one pendulous ovule in each cell. Styles .3, with terminal 

 stigmas. Fruit separating into 3 indehiscent dry carpels resembling seeds 

 (c^ed mericarps), usually leaving a filiform axis either entire or split into two. 

 JIach cai-pel marked outside with 10, 5, or fewer prominent ribs, and under- 

 .neath or within the pericarps are often longitudinal oil receptacles called 



