SmilacecB.'] CHINA. 21*7 
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 3-petala; 
aestivatio imbricativa : petala (an potius sepala interiora ?) sepalis alterna et subsequalia, tandem indurata 
persistentia. Stamina 10, subperigyna, 3 longiora : biloculares, cordato-subrotundm. Germm^lo- 
bosum, liberum, 3-loculare, loculis biovulatis? ; ovula collateralia, pendula. Stylus brevis. Stigma 5-angu- 
latum, subsimplex. Capsula prismatico-oblonga, ad basin calyce corollaque persistentibus cincta, 3-locularis, 
septicide 3-valvis : carpellis dorso medio extus ad basin canaliculato infeus introflexo, pseudo-bilocularibus, 
dispermis. Semina pendula, deorsum longe membranaceo-alata. — Caulis lignosus, ramosus. Folia alterna, 
glabra, 2A-4 uncias longa, ovato-oblonga, obtusiuscula, integerrima, subtus minutissime punctulata, vix 
pellucido-punctata, penninervia, petiolata. Petiolus submar ginatus, crenulatus, vix unciam longus. Stipulae 
du(B subulatoe ad basin foliorum juniorum, valde caducce. Panicula axillaris, dichotoma, pedunculata, 
pedunculo duas uncias longo. Flores juniores glutinosi. 
1. E. Chinensis. Hook, et Arn. 
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 w'here this genus ought to be placed in the natural arrangement. In some points it 
approaches the Tiliacea atid Byttneriaceae, with which the habit perhaps best accords ; in other respects 
there is a slight affinity with the group of Butacece. We leave it at the end of the Dicotyledones. 
Ord. LXXVIII. ORCHIDE^. 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, w. 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. D. C. in 
Redout. Lit. 3. t. 121. — Morsea Chinensis. Thunh. Roxb. FI. Ind. 1. p. 170. — Ixia Chinen- 
sis. Linn. — Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 171. — Belamcanda Schularmani. Rheed. Hort. Mai. 11. 37. 
— Vachell, “g-.” 
Probably this, although it bears the name of Chinensis, is only known as a cultivated plant in China. 
Ord. LXXX. SMILACE^. R. Br. 
1. Smilax China. Linn. — Lour. FI. Coch. 2. p. 763. 
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