16 DB. H. r. hance's sttpplemeitt to 



blossoms disposed in small axillary 3-6-flowered clusters, the 

 adoption of Mr. BentLam's specific name would involve an ab- 

 surd contradiction of fact. I therefore propose to call the species 

 after its discoverer, the late Mr. E. B. Hinds, surgeon of H.M.S. 

 ' Sulphur,' the first collector of plants in the island. The cha- 

 racter assigned by Dr. Hooker in the ' Qenera Plantarum' to 

 the inflorescence of this genus requires amendment, in order to 

 include the present species. 



*Zelmeria umbellata, Thw.Enum. PI. Zeyll2o; Benth. and Hook.f. 

 Gm.Plant.\. 830. ( = Karivia umbellata. Am., Benth. Fl. Hongk. 124.) 



17. Melothxia indica, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. ed. Willd. i. 43 ; Nmd. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. ser. 4, xvi. 169, t. 2. (=iEchmandra indica. 

 Am. ; M. J. Roem. Syn. Peponif. 32.) 



On hill-sides, scrambling amongst grass, and in waste places, 

 climbing over thickets. Pound also on the Indian continent, 

 in Ceylon, Cochinchina, the Chinese mainland, and the Moluccas. 

 *Khyiichocarpa odorata, Hook.f. in Benth. and Hook. /. Gen. Plant. 



i. 831. (=.^chmaiidra odorata. Hook. f. and Thorns.; Benth. Fl. 



Hongk. 124.) 



18. Opuntia Dillenii, Haw. ; W. and Ann. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 363 ; 

 Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. 162; Wight, Illustr. ii. t. 114. 



In thickets, among rocks by the sea, at Sheko ; flowering in 

 December. Found by the late Dr. Harland and myself Spread 

 over many parts of Southern Asia j but no doubt a native ori- 

 ginally of tropical America. 



19. Acanthopansix aculeata f, Seem. Joum. Bot. v. 238 ; Benth. and 

 Hook.f. Gen. Plant, i. 939. 



t Miquel and Seemann make Panax neuter ; Mr. Bentham made it feminine 

 in the 'Mora Hongkongensis,' but in the 'Genera' and' the 'Flora Austra- 

 liensis ' masculine ; and Dr. F. t. Mueller observes (Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. iv, 

 122), " Panacis genus apud Plinium est generis maseulini." It would perhaps 

 be difficult to prove this. Panaces is certainly neuter in Pliny. " Panaoes .... 

 diis inventoribns adsoriptum " (Hist. Nat. xxt. 11) j and, unless I am mistaken, 

 Panax nowhere occurs in Pliny in such a connexion as to show its gender. He 

 in one place (xxri. 58) has the words " panace poto ;" but the first may just as 

 well be the ablative of panaces as of panax, and it is impossible to teU whether 

 the adjective be masculine or neuter. On the other hand, both the names of 

 plants, and substantives of the third dedension ending in aa; are, aa a rule, fe- 

 minine. Poroellini, however, makes the word masculine ; but LiddeU and 

 Scott mark irava% as doubtfully so. 



[Panax is feminine in Pliny : " Aliqui et hano panacem heracleon, alii side- 

 ritim et apud nos millefolium vocant, cubitali scapo, ramosam, minuticribus 

 quam fcenicuU foliis vestitam ab imo." — Hist. Nat. xxv. cap. v. s. 19. Vol. iv. p. 

 117, Sillig'e edition.— Sec. L. S.] 



