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lower glumella, I can find nothing to diBtinguiah the Kordofan 

 H. tremula, Hochat., from E. orientalis. H. lahiensis, in ita uaual 

 State, haa, with its compactly arranged deep-coloured wider apike- 

 leta, a greater reaemblance to H. megimtaehya, Link, than to B. 

 orientalis ; hut I have found Bpecimens which I could not aatia- 

 factorily refer to one rather than the other. And even so emi- 

 nent an authority aa General Munro aeems to have been beaet by 

 similar difBcultiea ; for a apecimen of mine labelled in hia hand- 

 writing Tj. zeylamAca, and enumerated as such in the ' Botany of 

 the Voyage of the Herald,' ia certainly only Tl. hahiensis, a species 

 which, by the way, ia not mentioned in that work. 



'Anindinaria sinica, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. ser. 4, xviii. 235. 



(=A. Wightii, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 434, but not A. Wightiana, Nees. 



— A. loagiramea, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. Xxvi. 19.) 

 Not known out of the ialand. My name has several years' 

 priority over that of Munro. 



*Dendrocalaintis latiflonis, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 152, t. 6. 

 ( = Bambusa verticillata, Benth, Fl. Hongk. 434, but not of Willdenow.) 

 Only found hitherto in China and in Pormoaa. Thia fine ape- 

 cies, the " Great Bamboo" of the Chineae, which has cuhna about 

 40 feet high, inatead of 7 as stated by Munro, flowers, favente 

 Jove, annually without dying down or being apparently weakened. 

 It ia the apecfes generally employed here for scafiblding and where 

 atrong large-aized atema are required ; and ita young ahoots are 

 extensively uaed aa a vegetable, 



'Bambusa tuldoides, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 93. ( = B. tulda, 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. 434, but not of Roxburgh.) 

 Occuxa alao on the adjacent continent and in Formoaa. 



60. Bambusa flejniosa, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 101. 



Not so common in Hongkong as on the continent, but found 

 here and there. Not known out of China. A curioua and distinct 

 speciea, forming dense clumps, apparently flowering less regularly 

 than Dendrocalamm latiflorw, but also not dying afterwards. 

 Both flower in the winter months. 



Having to add fifteen ferns to those enumerated by Mr. Ben- 

 tham as inhabiting Hongkong, and the generic nomenclature I 

 should employ not being consonant with that of the flora, I am 

 compelled to reduce the whole of the species in that work to an 

 harmonious aystem. To this end I have, so far as possible, endea- 

 voured to name them according to the views of the late Professor 



