Smilacece.] 



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2. J. Chinensis ; ramosa, valde patens, foliis ternis dense subimbricatis, mucronatis. 



3. J. cernua ; ramis tenuibus apicibus pulchre nutantibus, foliis ternis patulis mucronatis. 



4. J. dimorpha ; foliis ternis patulis mucronatis ad ramulos paucos subcomplanatos oppositis imbricatis 

 minutis obtusis. 



Ord. LXXVII. EMMENANTHUS. Hook et Am. 



Calyx o-partitus, segmentis rotundatis obtusis persistentibus : aestivatio imbricativa. Corolla 5-petala; 

 a;stivatio imbricativa : petala (an potius sepala interiora ?) sepalis alterna et subasqualia, tandem indurata 

 persistentia. Stamina 10, subperigyna, 5 longiora : antheree biloculares, cordato-subrotunda?. Germen glo- 

 bosum, liberum, 5-loculare, loeulis biovulatis?; ovula collateralia, pendula. Stylus brevis. Stigma 5-angu- 

 latum, subsimplex. Capsula prismatico-oblonga, ad basin calyce corollaque persistentibus cincta, 5-locularis, 

 septicide 5-valvis : carpellis dorso medio extus ad basin canaliculato intus introflexo, pscudo-bilocularibus, 

 dispermis. Semina pendula, deorsum longe membranaceo-alata. — Caulis lignosus, ramosus. Folia alterna, 

 glabra, "2|-4 uncias longa, ovato-oblonga, obtusiuscula, integerrima, subtus minutissime punctulata, vix 

 pellucido-punctata, penninervia, petiolata. Petiolus submarginatus, crenulatus, vix unciam longus. Stipulae 

 dua subulatm ad basin foliorum junioium, valde caducce. Panicula axillaris, dichotorna, pedunculated 

 pedunculo duas uncias longo. Flores juniores glutinosi. 



1. E. Chinensis. Hook, et Am. 



Hab. Canton ; Messrs. Lay and Collie. 



The specimens exhibit old fruit, from which most of the seeds have escaped, and such of the latter as remain 

 are empty : there are also flower-buds, but so very young as to render the determination of the number of 

 ovules very uncertain ; we could not, however, satisfy ourselves as to there being more than a single pair. 

 We are very doubtful where this genus ought to be placed in the natural arrangement. In some points it 

 approaches the Tiliacece and Byttneriacece, with which the habit perhaps best accords : in other respects 

 there is a slight affinity with the group of Rutacece. We leave it at the end of the Dicotyledones. 



Ord. LXXVIII. ORCHIDEiE. Juss. 



1. Arundina Chinensis. Blum. — Lindl. gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 125. — Vachell, n. 82. 



1. Apaturia Chinensis. Lindl. gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 131. — Vachell, n. 81. 



1. Spiranthes Indica. Lindl. Coll. Bot. p. 30. t. 30. — Aristotelia spiralis. Lour. ? Ft. 

 Coch. 2. p. 638.— Vachell, n. 80. 



Ord. LXXIX. IRIDEiE. Juss. 



1. Pardanthus Chinensis. Ker in Ann. Bot. 1. p. 247. — Belamcanda Chinensis. JJ. C. in 

 Redout. Lit. 3. t. 121. — Mortea Chinensis. Thunb. Roxb. Ft. Lid. 1. p. 170. — Ixia Chinen- 

 sis. Linn. — Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 171. — Belamcanda Schularmani. Rheed. Hort. Mai. W.t. 37. 

 — Vachell, "q." 



Probably this, although it bears the name of Chinensis, is only known as a cultivated plant in China. 



Ord. LXXX. SMILACE^. R. Br. 



I. Smilax China. Linn. — Lour. Fl. Coch. 2. p. 763. 



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