THE FLOHA HONfiKONGENSIS. 17 



In woods and thickets. Common on the adjacent mainland, 

 extending at least as far north as Amoy and to the Island of 

 Formosa, and found also in Khasia and Assam. 



*Heptapleuxuin octopliyUuin, Smth. in Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. 

 Plant, i. 942. (=Paratropia cantoniensis. Hook, and Am,; Benth. 

 Fl. Hongk. 136.) 



*Comus kousa, Buerg. herb., teste Miq. Ann. Mus.Bot. Imgd.-Bat. ii. 

 159. (=Benthamiajaponica, Sieb. andZucc; Benth. Fl.Hongk. 138.) 

 The reduction of Benthamia to Gornus, effected by Dr. Hooker 

 in the ' Genera,' had been already indicated as imperative by Prof. 

 Asa G-ray (Mem. Amer. Acad. n. s. vi. 392). Eor the sake of 

 conformity to the nomenclature of Endlicher, the section to 

 which the Hongkong and Japanese species and its Himalayan 

 relative belong might be named CegJialoorania. I may here 

 remark that it is by inadvertence that C officinalis, Sieb. and 

 Zucc, figured at plate 50 of the ' Mora Japonica,' is referred in 

 the ' Genera ' to Tam/crania ; as that section was limited by 

 Endlicher, it fell into it, and was rightly so cited by him (Gen. 

 Plant. Suppl. i. 1415) ; but it belongs to Dr. Hooker's fourth 

 section, for which I would propose the name OJirysocrania. 



*01deiilandia. 



This genus, including the sections Anotis, JSotistonia, Sclero- 

 mitrion, and Kohawtia (the "two latter of which he had before 

 thought of generic rank), was admitted by Mr. Bentham in the 

 ' Plora Hongkongensis ;' but in the ' Flora AustraUensis ' he re- 

 combines it with Sedyotis. Prof. Asa Gray, on the other hand 

 (Man. Bot. JN". TJn. St. ed. 5, 211), considers both Oldenlandia 

 and Jloustonia well-marked . genera ; and I think the very pe- 

 culiar shape and small number of the seeds of the latter may 

 justify its retention. To this latter group belong Sedyotis 

 Bheedei, "W. & A., S. monosperma, W. & A., H. Thwaitesiana, 

 Hance, H. boerhaavioides, Hance, and other Asiatic species. 



•Ophiorrhiza japonica, Blwme ; Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. ii. 

 177. (=0. Eyrei, Champ. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 14/.} 



*Webera corymbosa, Willd.; Roscb. Fl. Ind. i. 696. (=Styloeoryne 



Webera, A. Rich. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 156.) 

 Dr. Hooker informs me (in litt.) that there are two plants under 

 this name in the ' Mora Hongkongensis,' with very different seeds. 

 *Webera moUissima, Benth. msc. (=Stylocoryiie moUissima, Walp. ; 



Benth. Fl. Hongk. 166.) 



