82 DR. OTTO STAPF ON 
Ramuli floriferi 14 lin. crassi, cortice atro-cinereo. Folia 
subelliptiea, obtusa, 33-6 poll. longa, 2-21 poll. lata, subcoriacea, 
glabrescentia, supra pallide viridia, infra subglauca, nervis 
lateralibus 8-9 obliquis venarum reticulatione tenui; petiolus 
2 lim. longus, erassiusculus. Flores 2-5, fasciculati; pedicelli 
bracteaque minute, fulvo-tomentoss. Sepala late ovata, tenuiter 
tomentosa, 3 lin. paulo longiora. Petala exteriora vix 2 lin. 
longa, extus tenuissime tomentella, interiora dimidio minora, 
glabra, omnia crassa. Stamina 9 ; anthere subsessiles, connectivo 
quadrato, obseure glanduloso, loculis lateralibus ; staminodia 
nulla. Carpella numerosa, tomentosa, 2-ovulata. 
Sinoe Basin, Whyte. 
The leaves are, as in Popowia Vogelii, more or less pubescent 
when young, the fine adpressed and scattered hairs disappearing 
later on. 
Kolobopetalum ovatum, Stapf (sp. nov.); affine K. auriculato, 
Engl., sed foliis ovatis basi rotundatis integris, paniculis robusti- 
oribus, filamentis 6 ad fere apicem in columnam brevissimam 
connatis distinctum. 
Planta glaberrima. Folia ovata, basi rotundata, abrupte in 
acumen obtusiusculum contracta, ad 4 poll. longa, ad 22 poll. 
lata, tenuia, nervis lateralibus utrinque 4-5, infimis e basi ortis 
uti venis vix prominulis. Panicule ad 8 poll. longe, divaricato- 
ramoss, ramis infimis ad 2 poll. longis. Flores d minuti, 1-2 
in axillis braetearum lanceolato-caudatarum 1 lin. longarum; 
pedicelli pertenues, breves. Sepala 6, interiora longiora, late 
elliptica, ad 1 lin. longa. Petala 6, obovata, apice rotundata, 
exunguiculata, à lin. longa. Filamenta fere tota longitudine 
connata; anther loculis confluentibus transverse dehiscentes, 
valva interiore minore. Flores 9 fructusque ignoti. 
Sinoe Basin, Whyte. 
Nymphza Lotus, Z., var. sinoéensis, Stapf (var. nov.). Folia 
tenuia, integra. Flores vix 3 poll. diametro. Sepala extus ex 
toto vel preter marginem album pulchre violacea, ad 14 poll. 
longa, ad 5 lin. lata. 
Sinoe Basin, Whyte. 
Alsodeia prasina, Stapf (sp. nov.); affinis 4. Afzelii, Engl., 
differt floribus minoribus, calyce pro ratione majore, antherarum 
appendiculo cochleariformi. 
