2. J. Chinensis; ramosa, valde patens, foliis ternis dense subimfarieatis, mucronatis.
3. J. cemua ; ramis tcmiibus apicibus pulchre nutantibus, foliis ternis patulis mucronatis.
4. J. dimorpha ; foliis ternis patulis mucronatis ad ramulos paucos subeomplanatos oppositis imbricatis
minutis obtusis.
O r d . L X X V IL EM M E N A N T H U S . Hook et Arn.
Calyx ü-partitus, segmentis rotundatis obtusis persistentibus : æstivatio imbricativa. Corolla 5-petaJa;
æstivatio imbricativa : petala (an potius sepala interiora?) sepalis alterna et subæqualia, tandem indurata
persistentia. Stamina 10, subperigyna, 5 longiora : biloculares, cordato-subrotundæ. Germen §\o-
Ijosum, liberum, 5-locu!are, loculis biovulatis? ; ovula collateralia, pendula. Stylus brevis. Stigma 5-angulatum,
subsimplex. Capsula prismatico-oblonga, ad basin calyce corollaque persistentibus cincta, 5-locularîs,
septicide 5-valvis : carpellis dorso medio cxtus ad basin canaliculate intus introflexo, pseudo-bilocularibus,
dispermis. Semina pendula, deorsum longe membranaceo-alata.—Caulis lignosus, ramosus. Folia alterna,
glabra, 2^-4 uncias longa, ovato-oblonga, obtusiuscula, integerrima, subtus minutissime punctulatu, vix
pellucido-punctata, penninervia, petiolata. Petiolus submarginatus, crenulatus, vix unciam longus. Stipula;
duoe suhulatoe ad basin foliorum juniorum, valde caduca. Panicula axillaris, dichotoma, pedunculata.
pedúnculo duas uncias longo. Flores juniores glutinosi.
1. E . Chinensis. Hook, et Arn.
H a b . Canton -, Messrs. L ay 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 fiower-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 Tiliacea anà Byttneriacea, with which the habit perhaps best accords: in other respects
there is a slight affinity with the group of Rutacea. We leave it at the end of the Dicotylédones.
O r d . L X X V I I I . O R C H ID E Æ . Juss.
1. Ai'undina CAmensfá. Blum.— Lindl. gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 125.— Vachell, n. %2.
1. Apaturia Chinensis. Lindl. gen. et Sp. Orch. p . 131.— VacheU, n. 81.
1. Spiranthes Indica. Lin d l. Coll. Bot, p . 30. t. 30.—Aristotelia spiralis. L o u r .? FL
Coch. 2. p. 63%.— Vachell, n. 80.
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O r d . L X X IX . IR ID E íE . J u ss.
1. Pardanthus Chinensis. Ker in Ann. Bot. 1. p . 247.— Belamcanda Chinensis. D. C. iu
Iledout. L it. 3. t. 121.— Mortea Chinensis. Thunb. Roxh. FL Ind. 1. p . 170.—I s ia Chinensis.
L in n .— Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 171.— Belamcanda Schularmani. Rheed. Hort. Mai. 11. t. 37.
— VacheU, “ 5.”
Probably this, although it bears the name of Chinensis, is only known as a cultivated plant in China.
O r d . L X X X . SM IL A C EÆ . R . Br.
1.' Smilax China. L in n .—Lour. FL Coch. 2. p . 763.
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