18 DB. H. F. HANCE's SrPPLEMENT TO 



The genus Stylocoryne, Cav., is identical with BanMa, L., not 

 with Webera, Schreb. 



•Ixora Pavetta, Roxh.; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 414. (=Pavetta indica, 

 lAnn. ; Benth. Fl. Hongh. 167.) 

 It seems impossible to keep Pavetta apart from losora ;. and 

 their junction, proposed by various writers, is now acquiesced in 

 by. Mr. Bentham. Miquel, who unites the two, prefers the name 

 Pavetta, assigning as a reason (M. Ind. Bat. ii. 263) that it is 

 " nomen certioribus speciebus stabUitum et perfeetioris quasi or- 

 ganisationis antistes " — which is evidently a mere fancy. But Asa 

 Gray weU observes (' Notes upon some Eubiaceae,' 7) that Iccora 

 ought to be retained, " not only because it had been preferred 

 by Lamarck [and he might have added Eoxburgh], but also 

 because, as a Linnsean genus, it is ten years older than Pavetta, 

 appearing in the first edition ofThe ' Grenera Plantarum.' " 



*Ixora stricta, Roxb., is, I think, a doubtful native. 



Mr. Fortune, in his 'Narrative of Two Visits to the Tea 

 Countries of China,' no doubt alluding to this species, speaks of 

 " Ixora coccinea flowering in profusion in the clefts of the rocks " 

 at Hongkong; but this is a pure flight of imagination. The 

 form found at East Point has pink blossoms ; but the wild plant, 

 which is singularly abundant at Whampoa and many other 

 places near Canton, has the flowers invariably of a bright flame- 

 colour, or deep orange verging on scarlet. Hence I suspect 

 that the Hongkong plant, which is quite local, growing only be- 

 hind a single temple, is an introduction. 

 *Eupatoriiun WaUichii, DC. 1 



Specimens of this from Whampoa (which are precisely similar 

 to Harland's Hongkong ones) are, Mr. Bentham wrote me some 

 years ago, different from the true plant of DeCandolle (and they 

 look BO when compared with a Khasia specimen of Hooker and 

 Thomson's, which has a denser inflorescence and less obtuse 

 inyoliicral bracts) ; and he thinks the South-Chinese plant nearest 

 H. longicaide, DC, the involucral bracts of which, however, are 

 much broader. The leaves of our species are ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate and crenato-serrate, usually rounded, but sometimes 

 cuneately narrowed at the base. OJr. Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. 

 Bat. ii. 167, who refers the Indian plant to JE.ja/ponicvm, Thunb. 

 *Boltonia indica, Benth. 



This occurs in two well-marked forms, which I have thus 



