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It may be of interest to point out that the following plants mentioned by Seemann in his "Botany of the Voyage of the Herald" as being cultivated in Hongkong in 1850 have long since become naturalized :—

Mimosa pudica, Linn.

Rubus rosafolius, Sm.

Lawsonia alba, Lam..

Possiflora foetida, Linn.

Argyreia speciosa, Sweet.

Thunbergia alata, Boj.

Lantana [Camara, L.]

Plumbago zeylanica, Linn.

Zephyranthes rosen, Lindl.

One of the most striking plants of the island which in common towards the east of the Bowen Road, and known as Camellia reticulata, Lindl., has just been discovered to be not a Camellia at all but the type of a new Genus. This is interesting as the Hongkong plant was supposed to be the wild form of the cultivated plant known as Camellia reticulata.

Appendix C.

Government Notification 222 of 1907, amended as in Government Notification

202 of 1907.

FORESTRY LICENCES.

1. The Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Department, on the recommendation of an Assistant Land Officer may issue and re-issue Private or Village Forestry Licences to private persons or to villages to cultivate pine trees on unoccupied Crown Land in the New Territories. Cultivation of pine trees shall mean resowing whenever trees are felled aud sowing trees on land where none have previously been grown.

2. Upon receipt of an application for a Forestry Liccuce the area applied for shall be marked out and notice shall be posted in an approved form and mauner at least 14 days be- fore the licence is issued stating that application for the area defined by marks has been made.

3. After licences have been issued the Licensees shall mark out the land in respect of which they are granted licences clearly at each corner with a board or stone bearing the licence number and shall maintain such marks during the term of their licences.

4. Such licences shall not confer upon the Licensees ownership of the ground nor of its natural products.

5. The licensees shall not desecrate any existing grave on the land in respect of which they hold licences nor interfere with future burials, and they shall leave a clear space of grass one Cheung in width round every grave on their lots.