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3. Leaves with about 6 pairs of nerves, 



obliquely cordate ... .,. ... 2. Wallichii. 



Leaves with about 10 pairs of nerves, 



acute at base 3. cyanocarpus. 



4. Fruit and stem glabrous ... ... 4. Fordii. 



Fruit pubescent or hirsute ... ... 5. 



5. Leaves shortly tomentose beneath ... 5. chinensis. 

 Leaves strigose on veins beneath ... 6. trichophlebus. 



1. L. micranthus, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 190. Lienchow 



River. Fl. . 



2. L. Wallichii, Wiffht ; Hook. f. I.e. 180. In the Happy Valley 



woods and on the north side of Mt. Victoria ; Yit-hai, 

 Han River ; Lienohow River. Fl. white, April. 



3. L. cyanocarpus, Jack ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 160. In the Happy 



Valley woods and behind the Buddhist Temple, Causeway 

 Bay, Hongkong. Fl. white, .May. 



4. L. Fordii, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1885, 324. Swatow ; 



Lofoushan. Fl. white, August. 



5. L. chinensis, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 160. In the Happy Valley 



woods, Victoria Peak and elsewhere, Hongkong ; Lantao 

 Island and Chinglanshi, Hongkong New Territory ; hill 

 near Chaochaufu. Fl. white. May. 



6. L. triehophlebup, Hemsl. Enum. PI. China, i. 388. Slopes of 



the Phoenix Mt., Swatow ; Lofoushan. Fl. white, April. 



29.— PAEDERIA. 



1. P. tomentosa, Blume ; P. foetida, Thunb. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 

 162. Very common in Hongkong ; near the Saikung 

 Road, Hongkong New Territory ; Macao ; Lofoushan. 

 Fl. white and pink, September. 



30.— LEPTODERMIS. 



Key to species. 



Plant subglabrous ... 1. oblonga. 



Plant tomentose ... ... ... 2. vestita. 



1. L. oblonga, Bunge ; Walp. Rep. ii. 488. Lienchow River. 



Fl. white, December. 



2. L. vestita, Hemsl. Enum. PI. China, i. 390. Lienchow River. 



Fl. white, August. 



31.— SERISSA. 



Key to species. 



Corolla tube about equal to calyx teeth 1 . Democritea. 

 Corolla tube abouttwicethe calyx teeth 2. foetida. 



1. S. Democritea, Baill. ; Democritea serissoides, DC. Prodr. iv. 540. 



Lienchow. Fl. . 



2. S. foetida., Comm. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 575. On Victoria Peak, 



Hongkong ; on the bank of the Han River, Swatow ; 

 Lienchow River. Fl. white, May. 



