26 DH. H. F. hancb's stipplbment to 



*Solantun biflortun, Lour.; Miq. Ann. Mus. Sot. LiUffd-Bat. iii. 118. 

 (=S. decemdentatum, Roxb.; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 242.) 

 Though Loureiro's name is not a very good one, the rules of 

 botanical nomenclature imperatively require its retention f. 



*Solantun Wrightii, Benth. 



This very fine species, which forms an erect tree about 15 feet 

 high, is certainly not a native of Hongkong. I remember being 

 told many years ago that it was introduced from New Zealand 

 under the name of " Potato tree." If so, it must have been from 

 some garden, as no such species is known from the Pacific isles. 

 It is curious that the native country of one of the handsomest 

 species of the genus should be quite unknown. 



^Adenosma grandiflora, Benth. msc. (=Pterostigma grandiflorum, 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. 247.) 



*Adenosina capitata, Benth. msc. (= Pterostigma capitatuin> Benth. 

 Fl. Hongk. 248.) 



Mr. Bentham has shown (PI. Austr. iv. 486) that E. Brown's 

 genus Adenosma is the same as Pterostigma, and that it was owing 

 to an error of A.. Cunningham's that he had supposed it to be 

 reducible to Sfemodia. Nees von Esenbeck's homonymous aean- 

 thaceous genus will have to be called by Hamilton's name of 

 CardantJiera, or, as it would more properly be written, Oardianthera. 



*Herpestis Moimieria, H, B., K. 



The flowers of this are always described as pale blue, verging 

 on white. As the plant occurs here, the corolla-tube is always 

 yellow within and marked with a deep rose-coloured incomplete 

 ring at the throat, and the limb is quite white. I have never 

 seen the slightest tinge of blue in any living specimen. 



*VandeIlia Crustacea, Benth, 



has the calyx (I write this with the living plant under my 

 eyes) quite as much folded and angular as in any genuine Torenia. 

 Either it and V. ollonga, Benth., must therefore be transferred to 

 Torenia, or the two genera, as suggested by me five years ago 

 {Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. ser. 5, v. 232), must be combined. As T. 

 parviflora, Ham., and others are in habit and size of flowers quite 

 like Vcmdellim, and there is no character at all but the plication 



t " TJt Medorum et Persarum, ita Botanioorum leges stabiles fimiffique ser- 

 vandae ; hoc tantum modo inextricabilis fugienda ooufusio." — P. B. Webb, 

 iSpieil. Gorgon. 153. 



