THE PLOEA llONGKONGENSIS. 11 



*Tetracera saxmentosa, mild. (=Delima sarmentosa, Lmn.;BBnth. 

 Fl. Hongk. 7). 

 There is not a single character to separate Belima from Tetrch 

 cera, the Hongkong plant usually having several seeds, nqt one 

 only. (Cfr. Planch, and Triana in 'Ann. Sc. Nat. Par.' ser. 4, 

 xvii. 20. Hance in Seem. ' Journ. Bot.' vii. 115.) 



*Artabotrys hongkongensis, Hance ira Seem. Joura.Boi.viii. 71. (= 

 A. Blumei, Hook, f, and Thorns. Fl. Ind. i. 128, part. ; Benth. Fl. 

 Hongk. 10; but not A. odoratissima, Bl.) 

 Not hitherto found elsewhere. 



3. Melodori sp. ? 



In the month of August 1861 I met in the woods at Hong- 

 kong with a small erect Anonaeeous tree in fruit, about 15 feet 

 high, with penninerved oblong leaves, densely clothed vnth stel- 

 late tomentum beneath, and ako stellately pubescent above when 

 young, but almost smooth at full maturity. The not ripe berries 

 were ovoid, about an inch long, densely muricated with flattened 

 tomentose cinnamon-coloured scales 3-4 lines long, dilated at 

 the base, and not very unlike the cup-scales of Qwercus vallonea, 

 'Kty. : one fruit which I dissected contained sis oblong seeds. 

 Mr. Bentham (who received a specimen) suggested, with aU re- 

 serve, that it might prove to be a Melodorvm • but until the 

 flowers are discovered, its place in the order must remain quite 

 uncertain, though there is little doubt it is new. M. Baillon 

 (Monogr. des Anon. 211) makes Melodoritm a section of Unona. 



*Cocculiis Thunbergii, DC. Prod. i. 98. 



Both O. ovalifolius, DC, and G- irilobus, DO., are reducible to 

 this : Drs. Hooker and Thomson had already combined the two 

 latter (PL Ind. i. .190), whilst Prof. Zuccarini (El. Jap. Pam. 

 Nat. i. 189) regarded 0. trihhus as a variety of G. Thunbergii. As 

 .there is a considerable amount of variation in form of leaf, the 

 latter name is by far the most eligible. 



*Cocculus incanus, Colebr. ; Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 961. 

 ( = Pericampylus incanus, Miers; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 13.) 



4. Nasturtium benghalense, DC. Prod-, i. 139 ; Hook.f. and Thorns, 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 139. 

 A weed in cultivated fields and fallows, flowering and fruiting 

 at the close of the year. Widely diffused over India, and through- 

 out the Indo-Chinese territories. 



♦Cardamine silvatica, lAnk ; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. ed. 3, i. 39. 



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