I or, 
E. acuminata, Royle 111. 127, t. 25. E. saUcifolia, Blume Mus. Bot. IT, 
118. E. chinensis, Hook, f. and Thorns. Herb. Ind, Or. (not of 
Brown), 
Var. 2. WaMchiana, Steud. in Blrnnc Mus, Bot. ii, 118 Op.); 
styles united: E. Incida, Wall. Cat. 1462. E. fasciculata, Ham. in 
Wall. Cat. 1463. E. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 1464. E. bifaria, Wall. 
Cat. 3721 ? E. membranacea, Gardn. in. Calc. Jonrn. Nat, Hist, vii, 
444. E. japonica, f3 acuminata, Thw. Emtm. PL Cey. 41. 
2. Eurya Wrayi, King, n. sp. A small tree: young branches 
slender, purplish-brown, laxly pubescent towards the apex. Leaves drying 
greenish-yellow, thinly coriaceous, oblong- lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, 
minutely serrulate, the base rounded : upper surface glabrous, shining; 
lower paler, dull, sparsely pubescent; length 2 to 2*75 in., breadth "5 to 
'7 in., petiole "1 in. Flowers narrowly ovate, pointed, scarcely expand- 
ing, 'l in. in diam. and *2 in. Jong, axillary, solitary or in 2 to C-flowered 
sessile umbels, quite glabrous t pedicels slender, glabrous, I* to *15 in. 
long, bi-bracleolate. Sepals unequal, erect, fleshy, ovate, acute, much 
imbricate. Petals sub-equal, erect, membranous, ovate, acute, connate 
in the lower third, Stametis 15, glabrous; anthers narrow, elongate, 
shortly apiculate; 6 laments short. Ovary ovoid, gradually narrowing 
itito the thick style, imperfectly 3-celled; stigmas short. Fruit un- 
known. 
Pemk ; at Tapa, Wray. 
Distinguished by its narrowly ovate pointed flower-buds and flowers, 
and by the rounded bases of its leaves. 
4. Actinidia, Lindl. 
Glabrous, strigose, or tomentoso shrubs ; usually climbers. Leaves 
entire or serrate, usually membranous, feat her- veined. Flowers polyga- 
mous or dioecious, in axillary cymes, rarely solitary. Sepats 5, slightly 
imbricate, subconnate at the base. Petals 5, somewhat contorted-im- 
bricate. Stamens many; anthers dehiscing by Blits, Ovary many- 
celled ; the styles as numerous, divergent and elongated after flowering. 
Fruit baccate. Distrib. Himalaya, China and Japan ; species about 8. 
1 . Actinidia Miqdelii, King, n. sp. Slender, scandent, 30 to 60 feet 
long: young branches cylindric, striate, glabrous, dark-coloured. Leaves 
membranous, ovate-acuminate to sub-rotund, mneronato, minutely glan- 
dular-dentate, the base rounded or slightly cordate; upper surface 
glabrous, rigid, the nerves and midrib minutely pubescent : lower sur- 
face pate brown when dry, minutely but densely tomentoso; nerves 
about 5 pairs, the lower spreading, the upper sub-erect, prominent be- 
neath fi& are the midrib and transverse veins; length 3 to 4 in., breadth 
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