12 DE. H. T. HA]!fCE*S SUPPLEMENT TO 



All -the specimens from Hongkong and Southern China I hare 

 examined belong to this, varionsly regarded as a species,- or as a 

 subspecies of the old O. hirsuta, Linn., by modern writers. I should 

 judge them distinct ; but I speak with the greatest diffidence, and 

 Mr. H. C. Watson (Oompend. Cyb. Brit. 483) appears to think 

 differently. • 



5. Capparis sciaphila, Hance in Ann. 8c. Nat. Par. ser. 5, v. 206. 



In a shady wood at Hongkong ; gathered by me in August 

 1861. Found, as I learn from Mr. Bentham, in South China by 

 inUett, but not known from elsewhere. 



6. Scolopia acuminata, Clos in Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. ser. 4, viii. 



251. (=Phoberos saevus, Hance in fValp. Ann. Bot. Syst. iii. 825.) 

 This species, which occurs also in Ceylon, and probably in the 

 Indian peninsula, is confounded in the ' Flora Hongkongensis ' 

 with S. cJimensis, Clos, from which, however, it is most unques- 

 tionably quite distinct, as I believe Mr. Bentham now fully 

 acknowledges. Cfr. my ' Note sur deux espfeces du genre Sco- 

 lopia ' (Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. ser. 4, xviii. 214). Though scevus is 

 the oldest specific name (and my own), I do not take it up, 

 "because I think it a duty to protest against Art. 57 of the ' Lois 

 de la nomenclature botanique ' adopted by the Paris International 

 Botanical Congress of 1867, as unreasonable, arbitrary, and pro- 

 ductive of a wholly uncalled-for addition to the already over- 

 whelming synonymy of the science. 



7. Xylosma senticosum, Hance in Seem. Joum. Bot. vi. 328. 



Once only gathered by me, in August 1861, by the side of the 

 Toad leading up to Victoria Peak ; and not hitherto found else- 

 where. 



♦"Waltheria indica, Linn. ; W. and Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 67. (= 

 W. atnericaua, Linn. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 38.) 



The word India being applied in Linnseus's time not only to the 

 Caribbean islands, but to the continent of South America, the 

 name I adopt is preferable for so widely diffused a plant ; neither 

 has priority, 



8. Grewia. 



About seventeen years ago I found, in the neighbourhood of 

 Tai tam tuk, a small white-flowered species of this genus, very 

 different from any known to me. Unfortunately it was mislaid 

 after collection, and I never had any opportunity to examine it 

 and determine its affinities. 



•Triumfetta rhomboidea, Jacq. ; Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 

 257.. (=Tangulata,Be»M.K. Hongk. 41, but not of Lam.) 



