Tiliacece.] 
CHINA. 
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G. affinis. Lindl. in Hort. Soc. Trans. 6. p. 265. — Microcos paniculata. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1. 
p. 514. Sm. in Rees' Cycl. — G. Don, in Mill. Diet. 1. p. 551. — M. Mala. Ham. in Linn. 
Soc. Trans. 13. p. 549. — M. Stauntoniana. G. Don, in Mill. Diet. 1. c. — Arsis rugosa. 
Lour. FI. Cochin, p. 409.— Swrm. FL ZeyL t. 74. — Plukn. Phyt. t. 2Q2.f. 3.- — Rheede, Hort. 
Mai. 1 . t. 56. 
We have been particular about the synonyms of this plant, of which we have numerous specimens from 
Mr. Millett and Mr. Vachell, because there appears to have been much confusion; the state with leaves 
broader upwards having been described by three diiferent Botanists, under as many different names, aU con- 
sidering it as distinct from the plant of Linnseus. Hamilton, however, appears to have had in view as the 
Linnsean plant, another species called Microcos tomentosa by Smith, and which is the Grewia paniculata of 
Roxburgh; and it is not improbable that, from the specific name, Roxburgh himself fell into the same 
mistake. As to the specific identity of the two forms, we for some time entertained considerable doubts : 
the figures in Roxb. Corom. Rheede, and Plukenet, aU representing the Ceylon and Malabar plants and agree- 
ing with a specimen of M. paniculata, Sm., preserved in the Linneean Herbarium, exhibit a leaf that is ovato- 
lanceolate, and scarcely cordate at the base; while in the others from China, Ava, and Bengal, the leaves 
are usually broader upwards above the middle, and then shortly acuminate. To the first belongs, of 
Wallich’s List, n. 1098, C. E. F. G. : and to the second, the other specimens of the same number, excepting 
perhaps D, the G. begoniifolia, Roxb. FI, Ind. p. 592, about which we have not had it in our power to satisfy 
ourselves. Our friends Dr. Wight and Hamilton’s specimens appear to determine the point that the one is 
not distinct as a species or even as a variety, from the other, the former Botanist having found the ovato- 
lanceolate leaf mixed with so strong an approach to the obovato-lanceolate kind, as to be scarcely distinguish- 
able on the same bush, in hilly situations in the Peninsula of India : and although Dr. Hamilton says “ folia 
apicem versus latiora,” his own specimen, preserved in the Museum of the University of Edinburgh, is quite 
intermediate between that and the Ceylon plant figured in Burman. 
Of the Order Tiliacem, we have Corchorus acutangulus, Lam., and Triumfeita Lappula, gathered near 
Macao, by Mr. Millett and Mr. Vachell. 
Of the Order TernstrmmiacetB, Mr. Millett’s Collection contains a very fine plant, which we refer to 
Cleyera, though the antherse be not “ retrorsum Setoso-hispidse,” nor the stigma divided. We think the 
species well deserving of bearing the name of its discoverer, who has rendered so much service to Botany 
during his long residence in China. Its characters we give below.* 
Of the Order Camelliem, Polyspora axillaris, ( Camellia axillaris, Ker,) is sent from Macao by Mr. MiUett. 
* Cleyera Millettii; foliis oblongis obtuse acuminatis integerrimis (siccitate) venosis supra nitidis, 
pedunculis solitai’iis unifloris supraaxillaribus cernuis, sepalis petalisque snbsequalibus omnibus acutis, stam- 
inibus pilis erectis appressis setosis, stigmate simplici. (Tab. XXXIII.) 
Frutex (seu arbor) valde ramosus. Rami glabri, subrugosi, atro-fusci, nitidiusculi. Folia alterna, 2-3-uncias longa, brevissime 
petiolata, coriacea, oblonga, basi attenuata, apice breviter et obtuse acuminata, integerrima, nervosa, superne prcecipue, ubi nitida, 
subtus opaca, pallidiora, nervis magis obscuris, juniora subtus puberula. Fedunculi paulo supra axillam inserti, subunciam longi, 
cernui, solitarii, uniflori, apice ad basin calycis bibracteati, bracteis cito deciduis. Calyx e sepalis 5, ovatis, acutis, concayis, coriaceis, 
lateribus imbricatis, dorso subhirsutis, marginibus ciliatis. Fetala 5, ovato-oblonga, acuta concaviuscula, calyce vix longiora. Stamina 
25, hypogyna, cum basi petalorum subaccreta : Filamenta iu mucrouem producta, pilosa, inferne praecipue, pilis erectis, appressis. Anthera: 
loculi oppositi, adnati, lineares, longitudinaliter dehiscantes. Ovarium subrotundum, piloso-hispidum, in stylum longum, simplicem, 
glabrum attenuatum. Stigma obtusum, simples. 
From C. Japonica, the original Cleyera of Thunberg, this is known by its veiny always entire leaves, by the sepals and calyx nearly 
eq^ual in size, and remarkably acute, and by the entire stigma. In C. ochnacea, of which we possess fine specimens from Dr. Wallich, 
the peduncles are clustered, the sepals and petals are quite rounded at the extremity, the anthers are retrorsely hispid, and the stigma 
is bifid : and the same characters are found iu the C. grandiflora of Dr. Wallich. 
Tab. XXXIII. Cleyera Millettii. Fig. 1, Flower; fg. 2, Stamen ; Jig. 3, Petal; jfg. 4, Pistil -.—magnified. 
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