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G. A. C. HERKLOTS

LOCALITIES. -Common both near the sea on the hillsides, in the nullahs and on the hill tops both in Hong Kong island, the neighbouring islands and mainland.

REFERENCES.-

(1) Bentham (2) D. and T.

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Figure 6. Strophanthus divergens, pair of follicles,

MYRTACEÆ.

Calyx-tube adhering to the ovary and often projecting above it; the limb of 4 or 5 or rarely more lobes or teeth. Petals as many, inserted on the calyx at the top of the tube, imbricate in the bud. Stamens usually indefinite, sometimes twice as many or as many as the petals, curved inwards in the bud, free or variously connected. Anthers small, 2-celled. Ovary inferior, 2-to 5-—or more celled, rarely 1-celled by incompleteness or failure of the partitions. Ovules 2 or more in each cell or rarely solitary, the Seeds placentas axile. Fruit dry or succulent, indehiscent or dehiscent. without albumen. Embryo straight or curved.-Trees or shrubs. Leaves

The Hong Kong Naturalist.

The Hong Kong Naturalist.

Vol. III, No. 2.

Plate 20.

Rhodomyrtus tomentosa.

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