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CHINA. 
[Apocynea. 
inserta, filiformia, inter se spiraliter contorta: antherce sagittatas acuminatae medio stigmati coherentes. 
Glandula hypogynae 5, majusculaB, carnosee, glabrae. Germen ovatum, compressum, biloculare. Stylus 
unicus, filiformis. Stigma e basi dilatata conicum. 
This, if it be a Parsonsia, belongs to the second section, which hitherto consists of Australasian species: 
but we think there are sulScient characters, although we are ignorant of the fruit, to constitute it a distinct 
genus: in which case the plant may be named Helicandra Sinensis. 
1 . Holarrhtena affinis ; antheris oblongis medio tubi insertis, stylo subelongato. 
Corolla hypocrateriformis, fauce tuboque intus pubescent! absque squamis denticulisve. Stamina inclusa: 
filamenta nulla: antherce medio tubi insertae, a stigmate liberee, oblongse, integrm, longitudinaliter pollini- 
ferae. Annulus subcarnosus, tenuis, brevis, pistilli basin arete cingens, alioquin squamae nullae hypogynae. 
Germina duo. Stylus subelongatus, tubo subdimidio brevior. Stigma cylindraceo-capitatum. 
This accords so well with the figure in Vahl, Symb. 3. t. 59, of H. mitis, Br., that we should have con- 
sidered it identical, did not Brown and Vahl describe the stamina as situated at the bottom of the tube 
of the corolla, as having almost no style, and omit all mention of the little annulus that surrounds the base 
of the germen. 
ECDYSANTHERA. {Hook, et Arn.) 
Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis lanceolatis. Corolla subcampanulata ; limbo b-fido, patente, 
laciniis aequilateris, per aestivationem contortis ; fauce tuboque intus ab.sque squamis denti- 
culisve. Stamina medio tubo inserta: filamenta brevissima: antherce semiexsertae, sagittatae, 
medio stigmati cohaerentes, lobis posticis polline vacuis. Annulus hypogynus, brevis, tenuis, 
pistilli basin cingens. Germina duo. Stylus unicus, brevis. Stigma conico-capitatum, 
acutum. — Frutex erectus ? Folia sublonge petiolata, elliptica^ basi acuta apice subiter breve 
attenuata, glabra. Panicula axillaris., elongata, laxe cymosa. Flores parvi, rosei. Corollae 
tubus vix calyce longior. Germina villosa. 
1. E. rosea. (Tab. XLII.) 
Hab. Canton, Macao, and the adjacent islands. Messrs. Lay and Collie, Mr. Millett, and Rev. G. H. 
Vachell. (No. 144.) 
There can be no doubt, we believe, of this being a genus distinct from any previously described. It is 
extremely allied to the next in habit; and it is probable that Echites f lucida. Wall. List, n. 1670, belongs 
one or the other, but we have not seen flowers sufficiently advanced for examination. 
Tab. XLII. Eedysanthera rosea. Fig. 1. Flower; fig. *2. Corolla laid open : — magnified. 
POTTSIA. {Hook, et Arn.) 
Corolla hypocrateriformis, fauce tuboque esquamatis, limbo 5-partito, patente, laciniis 
sequilateris, per aestivationem baud contortis. Stamina exserta: filamenta fauce inserta, 
usque ad medium tubi decurrentia ibique intus dense pubescentia, apice glabra, simplicia : 
antherce sinu lato sagittate, medio stigmati cohaerentes cupulamque obtusam supra illud 
formantes: lobis posticis subulatis incurvis polline vacuis. Germina duo, villosa: Stylus 
unicus, e basi oblonga attenuatus, glaber : Stigma incrassatum, subglobosum, 5-angulatum, 
acutum. Squamce hijpogynce 5 lineari-lanceolate, liber*, omnino glabrse, germen superantes. 
— Frutex erectus'? Rami puberuli. Folia glabra.) petiolata^ ovalia, basi subcordata, repente 
