Ex herbario Hassleriano: Novitates paraguarienses. VI. 113 
less purpurascent. — Icon. Honzó-Dzufu, LXX, fol. 20 recto (by Franchet 
in his Enum., Pl. Jap., I, p. 60, this plant was wrongly referred to Thea 
maliflora Seem. — Thea rosiflora O. Kuntze). — Nom. Jap. Benibana-cha. 
— Hab. Prov. Musashi: Komaba, Bot. Gard. Agric. Coll, cult. (T. Makino! 
Oct. and Nov. 8, 1900, Nov. 1905). — A garden variety. 
21. Thea Sasanqua (Thunbg.) Nois. var. vernalis Makino, l. c., p. 135. 
Branches terete, fulvous, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, elliptical- 
oblanceolate, acuminate with an obtuse point. cuneately attenuated below, 
crenulato-serrulate with a mucronate tip, coriaceous, glabrous, green and 
shining above, paler beneath, about 3!/2—71f cm long, 1!/44—3 cm wide; 
midrib prominent beneath, glabrous; veins about 6—9 on each side, in- 
conspicuous superficially; petiole entirely glabrous, 3—9 mm long. Flowers 
terminal and axillary, solitary, about 6—7 cm across, white, semidouble. 
Sepals sericeous dorsally and scales also more or less so. Petals sub- 
numerous, obovato-oblong or oblong, emarginate or retuse, about 3!/, cm 
long. Stamens numerous, connate into a few bundles, shorter than 
petals. Styles 3, connate in the greater portion, slightly shorter than 
stamens. Ovary villoso-tomentose. — Nom. Jap. Haru-sazankwa (nov.). 
— Hab. Prov. Musashi: Tokyo, cult. (T. Makino! March 1896). — This 
differs from the type of Thea Sasanqua (Thunb.) Nois. by the glabrous 
branch, larger and more shining leaves, entirely glabrous petiole, and 
flowering time; probably a hybrid between Thea Sasanqua and T. japonica 
With the characters of T. Sasanqua more predominating. 
28. Loxogramme salicifolia Makino, 1. c., p. 138. 
Gymnogramme salicifolia Makino, Phanerog. et Pterid. Jap. Ic. Ill. 1, 
no. 7 (1899), tab. 34; Matsum. Ind. Pl. Jap., I, p. 389. — Gymnogramme 
lanceolata Catal, Pl. Herb. Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo (1886), p. 256; 
Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, X (1896), p. 178, non Hook. 
XXXVI. Ex herbario Hassleriano: Novitates paraguarienses. VI. 
(Originaldiagnosen.) 
XXIII. Malvaceae III. auct. E. Hassler (Continuatio). 
Asterochlaena Garcke, Hassler in Fedde, Rep.. VII, p. 381. 
Bei Bearbeitung der in Paraguay so reich vertretenen P. sidifolia- 
Gruppe hat sich als Resultat unserer Beobachtungen ergeben, dass 
Sümtliche in Paraguay vorhandene Vertreter dieser Gruppe unserer 
Sektion I. Pseudoasterochlaena anzugliedern sind, dasselbe wird wohl auch 
mit der uns unbekannten P. argentina Gürcke der Fall sein. Eine dieser 
Gruppe angehörige paraguaysche Art P. orbicularis Ulbr. ist ebenfalls in 
diese Sektion einzubeziehen, wie dies aus dem uns reichlich zur Verfügung 
Stehenden Fruchtmaterial hervorgeht. 
Repertorium novarum specierum, VIII. 8 
