146 KUBiACE^. lading, 



1. ADINA, Salisb. 



Calyx-limb of 5 persistent linear lobes. Corolla-tube slender; lobes 5, 

 valvate in the bud. Anthers included in the tube. Style exserted, with a 

 capitate stigma. Ovary 3-celled, with few ovules suspended from near the 

 top of the cells. Fruit capsular, septicidal, the 2 valves and seeds falling off, 

 leaving a persistent axis crowned by the star-like limb of the calyx. Seeds 

 oblong, with a narrow edge or wing. — Shrubs. Stipules united in pairs be- 

 tween the leaves. Mowers densely crowded in globular heads, on axillary or 

 terminal peduncles., 



Besides the following species, the genus comprises one other, the A. foh/cepMta, Benth. 

 {Nauclea polyeephala, Wall. Catal. n. 6100), with several flower-heads, forming a short ter- 

 minal raceme or corymb, which extends from Silhet and Chittagong to the vtcinitj- of Hong- 

 kong, but has not been, found in the island itself. We have also from S. China, hut not yet 

 from the island of Hongkong, a species' of the closely allied genlis Cephalanthus, which can 

 neither be distinguished from some forms of the American G. occidentali&j nor from others of 

 the Asiatic C. nmicleoides j the glabrous and pubescent varieties occur both in America and 

 Asia, and" the glands of the corolla are' soinetimes a's large in the American as in the Asiatic 

 speciinens. ' 



1. A. glohi&ora.f Salisb. ; DC. Frod.iv.Si^. An erect glabrous much- 

 branched shrub. Leaves shortly stalked, oblong or obovate-laneeotate, acu- 

 minate, 1|^ 'to 3 in. long. Peduncles axillary or rarely 3 together at the ends 

 of the branches, shorter or longer than the leaves, each with 3 small bracts a 

 little below the middle, and bearing a single globular flower-head,, about 5 

 lines diameter, withouit th&loBg exserted style?. — Iftmclea Adina, Sm., and N. 

 adinoides, Lindl. Bot. Eeg. xi. t. 895. Adina pedunculata, DC. Prod. iv. 349. 



Common in ravines. Champion and others ; also on the aflacent continent, but not known 

 out of S. China. 



2. THYSANOSPEBMTJM, Champ. 



Calyx-bmb of B-, or rarely 4 persistent short lobes. CoroUa-tube slender ; 

 lobes 5, rarely 4, spreading, imbricate in the bijd. Anthers liaear, included 

 in the tube. Style entire, club-shaped at the top, exserted. Ovary 3-celled, 

 with several peltate ovules in each, imbricated upwards, the placenta peltately 

 attached to the middle of the partition. Capsule nearly globular, opening 

 loculicidally in 3 valves which split septicidally. Seeds bordered by a fringed 

 membranous wing. — Flowers axillaiy, solitary. 



The genus comprises only a smgle species. ■ 



1. T. di£fasum. Champ, in Kew Jbufn. Bot. iv. 168. Alow prostrate 

 or trailing shrub, the slender branches covered when young with appressed 

 haii-s. Leaves shortly stalked, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 

 1 to \\ in. long, glabrous above, with appressed hairs on the midrib and 

 edges underneath. Stipules single on each side, lanceolate, entire. Pedun- 

 cles axfllary, solitary, 1-flowered, 3 to 3 lines long, with 2 minute, bracts above 

 the middle. Calyx scajreely 1 line long, the ovate lobes scarcely as long as 

 the globose tube. Corolla-white, the tube 5 lines long, pubescent i the lobes 

 near 3 lines long, obtuse, pubescent inside. Capsule like that of a HedyoUi, 

 with about 10 seeds to each cell. 



In ravines, WaUing upon rocks, abundant on Mount Victoria and some other places. Cham- 

 pion ; also. WngU. Not receivisd from elsewhere. ' 



