Species novae ex ,Hookers Icones Plantarum*. 341 
vel interdum bene evolutum et stylis quam staminibus longioribus ; 
ovarium (an semper?) cassum. Flores feminei anantherati vel 1—3- 
staminiferi. Ovarium 2-loculare, 3-ovulatum, stylis 2 elongatis filiformibus 
divergentibus persistentibus; ovula a placenta apicali pendula. Capsula 
sublignosa, ovoidea, 1—1,5 ‘cm longa, supera, acuminata, densissime 
stellato-pubescens,  septicide dehiscens, bivalvis, valvis bifidis; endo- 
carpium corneum, ab epicarpio solutum, bivalve. Semina in quoque 
loculo solitaria, oblongo-ovoidea, circiter 5 mm longa; testa crustacea, 
fusea, nitidissima, hilo albo magno intruso. Embryo axilis, albumine 
aequilongus ; cotyledones planae, quam radicula duplo longiores. 
China: Hupeh; Ichang, Nanto, Feng and other localities; A. Henry, 
1300, 3314, 3314 A, 3314 B, 3826, 4280; E. H. Wilson, 115 (specimens 
figured), Faber, 576. — Szechuen; Kouimen, Delavay, 2290. 
With specimens of this bush from numerous distant localities before 
us we have now no hesitation in separating it specifically from the ar- 
boreous D. racemosum Sieb. u. Zucc., but it is difficult to define the 
species by floral characters. Distylium and Sycopsis are genera in which 
the floral structure is inconstant and imperfect, o$ving to irregularity in 
the placement of the organs.  Sycopsis differs from Distylium in the 
flowers having an urceolate receptacle and in the stamens being peri- 
gynous. Apparently the flowers in both genera are funetionally either 
male or female, never hermaphrodite. 
32. Distylium myricoides Hemsley in Hookers Icon., IX (1907) in ad- 
not. ad tab 2835. 
A. D. chinensi Hemsl., differt habitu arborescente, foliis majoribus 
minus coriaceis supra nitidis et bracteolis quam sepalis duplo latioribus; 
etiamque a D. racemoso Sieb. et Zucc., foliis dentatis recedit. 
Arbor circiter 12 m alta, novellis stellato-puberulis. Rami floriferi 
graciles, cortice cinereo; internodia brevissima, Folia breviter petiolata, 
coriacea, glabrescentia, lanceolata vel oblanceolato-oblonga, 5—10 cm 
longa, 2—3 cm lata, supra medium paucicalloso-denticulata, calloso-api- 
culata, basi cuneata, supra nitida, subtus opaca; costa facie superiore 
impressa; venis primariis utrinque circiter 5. Bracteolae ovatae. Sepala 
florum maseulorum 3—5, saepe 3, inaequalia, unilateralia. Stamina 
saepius 3, filamentis antheras aequantibus. Flores feminei (vel herma- 
phroditi?) saepe solitarii, staminibus 2. Spicae interdum androgynae (?) 
flore terminali femineo. Capsula ignota. 
China: Fokien: S. T. Dunn, Hb. Hongk. 2684, 2685. 
33. Distylium strictum Hemsley in Hookers Icon., IX (1907) in adnot. 
ad tab. 2835. 
Ut videtur frutex nanus habitu strictissimo foliis parvis integris. 
Frutex gracilis, dense ramosus, ramis rigidis erectis appressis. 
Folia conferta, suberecta, brevissime petiolata, rigida, coriacea, oblanceo- 
lato-oblonga vel spathulata, 1—4 cm longa, 5—-10 mm lata, integra vel 
raro apicem versus obscurissime 1-vel 2-denticulata, apice subacuta vel 
rotundata simul calloso-apiculata, deorsum gradatim attenuata, margine 
