390 116. LAURINES. 
The Chinese specimens are rather more hairy than the Japanese; 
the very young inflorescences are furnished with large mem- 
branous reflexed bracts, which doubtless fall away early, and the 
pedicels of specimens in quite young fruit are scarcely at all 
thickened. 
10. Lindera obtusiloba, Blume, Mus. Bot. i. p. 325; Meisn. 
in DC. Prodr. xv. 1, p. 246: Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. 
1. p. 416. 
Lindera mollis, D. Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. p. 168; Miq. in Ann. 
Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. p. 197. 
Corra: Chemulpo (Carles!); CongEgAN AmocurPELAGO (Old- 
ham, 716). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
Japan. 
11. Lindera ? Oldhami, Hemsl., n. sp. 
Species facie JL. megaphylle sed minus robusta, ramulis 
tenuioribus, foliis fere membranaceis supra nitidus subtus semper 
pubescentibus, umbellis 9 multifloris, bacca ovoidea semipoll. 
longa. 
Formosa: Tamsui (Oldham, 455!) Kelung (Ford, 49!) 
Herb. Kew. 
' 12. Lindera populifolia, Hemsl., n. sp. 
Arbor ramulis fructiferis crassiusculis glabris nigrescentibus. 
Folia sparsa sed presertim ad apices ramulorum conferta, longe 
graciliterque petiolata, subcoriacea, glaberrima, orbiculari-obo- 
vata, absque petiolo 3-4 poll. longa lataque, integra, basi sspe 
plus minusve cuneata, subtus pallidiora, glauca, venis primariis 
lateralibus utrinque circiter 5-6 ; petiolus gracilis, glaber, 1-22 
poll. longus. Flores...... Umbelle ssepius 4-6-floræ, breviter 
pedunculate ; peduneulus 3-4 lineas longus, crassiusculus, hir- 
sutus, pedicellis glabris graciliusculis sursum leviter incrassatis 
6-9 lineas longis. Bacca globosa, ut videtur matura, 2-21 lineas 
diametro. 
SZECHUEN: mount Omei at 3000 to 4000 feet (Fuber!). 
Mr. Ford also sends specimens of it from the same source, 
numbered 41 and 78. 
Evidently a congener of Lindera obtusiloba, Blume, easily 
distinguished by its orbicular-obovate leaves on long stalks and 
the very small fruit. 
