.] CAPEIFOLIAOE^. 143 



lines diameter. Stamena rather longer. Berries flattened, shining.— F. nervosum, 

 Hook, and Arn. Bot. Beech. 190 (a name preoccupied by a species of Don's). 

 Common on the hills, C/uumpien and others. Also on the adjacent continent. Not found 

 out of south China, but allied to the Indian V. puneMum, which has larger leaves, with a 

 different venation, etc 



3.V. oA.ova^!ia&ivaxicmfLindl.Bot.Reg. t. 456; Hook. andThams. inJoum. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 177. A perfectly glabrous evergreen shrub, like the last, but 

 readily known by the inflorescence. Leaves oval-elliptical, obovate, or oblong, 

 obtuse or scarcely acuminate, 8 to 6 in. long, entire or rarely serrate, coriace- 

 ous and shining above, with the veins much less prominent underneath than 

 in the last species ; the petioles thick, 5 or 6 lines long. Elowers white, rather 

 lajger and less spreading than in F. venulostem, in loose ovate or pyramidal 

 terminal and sessile panicles, 3 or 4 in. long. Corolla 3 to 3|- lines diameter. 

 Berries ovoid. 



Hongkong, Champfoti and others. Cojnmon in south Chjna, extending to the Khasia 

 mountains and northward to Japan. 



2. LOWICBBA, Linn. 



Calyx with a border of B small teeth. CoroUa with a more or less elongated 

 tube and an oblique limb, either 5-lobed or in 3 lipjs, the upper one 4-lobed, 

 the lower entire. Stamens 5, Ovary 2- or. 3-ce]led, with several ovules in 

 each cell. Style fibform, with a capitate stigma. Berry small, with one or 

 very few seeds. — Climbers or erect shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, Plowers 

 2 or more together, sessile, in axillary or terminal heads. 



A. considerable genus, disposed over tljie temperate and mountainous subtropical regions 

 of the northern Jieniisphere. The Hongkong species are all climbers, belonging to De 

 Candolle's division Nintooa, the flowers sessile, in pairs, on short common peduncles, the 

 corolla-tube slender, the limb 2-lipped. 



leaves and branches glabrous. CoroUa-tube near 2 in \. L. longiflora. 



Iieaves and branches hirsute with spreading hairs. Corolla-tube 1 to 



1^ in 2. i. macrcmtha. 



Leaves glabrous, shining and wrinkled above, softly tomentose underneath 



as wdl as the branches. Corolla-tube f in 3, Z. reticulata. 



Leaves slightly pubescent above and not shining, softly pubescent or 



tomentose underneath as well as the branches. CoroUa-tube S in. . 4. L. nrnltifiora. 



1. !•. longiflora, BG. Prod. iv. 333 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1332, A glabrous, 

 climber. Leaves stalked, oblong, 2 to 2| in. long, ^ to 1 in. broad, rather 

 coriaceous, paler underneath, with a few prominent very oblique nerves. Flower- 

 pairs shortly pedicellate, axillary or forming loose terminal heads or short 

 racemes. Bracts small, linear. Bracteoles veiy short. . CoroUa-tube slender, 

 about 3 in. long, quite gla,brous or slightly glandular ; the Hmb as in the 3 

 following species, of 3 lips roUed back at the top, the upper one 4^toothed, the 

 lower one narrow, entire. 



Largely distributed over the island, but less frequent than the following spepiee, Chawfion 

 and others. Only known from S. China. 



3. L. macrantha, DC Prod. iv. 333. A climber, with the young 

 branches thickly hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves on short stalks, ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, more or less cordate at the base, 3 to 3 in. long, ciliate 



