THE PtORA HONSEOKflENSIS. 2? 



and generally rather more diatitiet obliquity of the calyx in the 

 former to distinguish the two, I do not think they can be kept 

 separate, not being, in fact, natural genera. 



*Centranthera hispida, R. Br. 



In every Iresh specimen I have examined from Hongkong,, the 

 neighbourhood of Canton, or Amoy, in all which localities I have 

 myself gathered it, I have found the corolla of a dull ochreous 

 yellow with reddish-brown blotches inside. 



27. Siphonostegia chinensis, Benth. in DC. Prod. \. 538 ; Hook, and 

 Am. Bot. Beech, t. 44. 



Found by the late Dr. Harland and myself in July 1856, grow- 

 ing abundantly on moist grassy slopes by the sea near West 

 Point ; but I am not aware that it has been collected by others, 

 and I have not myself met with it since in the island. Extends 

 into Northern China, the Amur territory, and Japan. 



*Utriciilaria exoleta, R. Br.; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 626. (= U. 

 diautha, Roem. and Schult. ; Benth. Fl. Songh. 256.) 



28. Calosanthes jndica, Btewie ; DC.Prod.lx.\^^. 



In ravines on the northern side of the island, above Head- 

 Quarter House. Occurs in India, chiefly near the coast, the 

 Malayan islands, and Cochinchina. I have no specimens of this 

 in my herbarium ;.but have seen fresh flowering ones and copious 

 fruits gathered by Captain Maclean, formerly Military Secretary 

 in Hongkong. 



o^Beixleria cristata, Linn. 



The late Dr. Thomas Anderson, in his " Enumeration of Indian 

 Acanthacess" (Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 491), gives Hongkong and 

 Canton as localities, with the remark " certissime ex hortis ! " 

 There is no reason offered for~this very decided opinion ; and the 

 plant is not by any means common in Hongkong, occurring, for 

 the most part, on the south side of the island : but I see no ground 

 for doubting its being a genuine native. As to "WTiampoa and 

 Canton, I can speak with greater confidence. It there occurs, 

 in Danes' Island and in the low undulating hills to the north of 

 the city, mingled with Symplocos sinica. Ait., Samhusa flexuosa, 

 Munro, Scolopia chinensis, Clos, Sageretia theezans, Brongn., Bosa 

 Brimonis, Lindl., Berchemia lineata, DC, and other ordinary 

 plants, and has indubitably an equally good claim to be regarded 

 as indigenous. I may add that I have never, during my long re- 

 sidence in China, seen the plant cultivated in a Chinese garden. 



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