344 F. Fedde. 
China: Western Hupeh and Eastern Szechuen; in various localities; 
A. Henry, 4887, 6480; E. H. Wilson, 1030, 3140; R. P. Farges, 792; 
Bock von Rosthorn, 2025, 2328. 
. Dr. L. Diels first discovered that the fruit associated with male 
Holboellia cuneata D. Oliv., did not belong to that plant, but to Parvatia 
chinensis Franch., and he provisionally referred the two plants to Hol- 
boellia under the subgeneric name of Sinofranchetia. Mr. Wilson procured 
excellent specimens of both sexes of P. chinensis Franch., and we hawe 
now no hesitation in raising Diels’s subgenus Sinofranchetia to generic 
rank excluding male Hoboellia cwieata D. Oliv. The latter, of which the 
female flowers and fruit are unknown, differs from all the species of 
Stauntonia (including Holboellia and Parvatia) in having apparently deci- 
duous leaves with very oblique lateral leaflets, long solitary flaccid 
racemens of flowers, narrow, laterally involute sepals, almost quadrate 
fleshy nectaries, very short free filaments and no pistillodes, and probably 
belongs to an undescribed genus. 
38. Stauntonia elliptica W. B. Hemsley in Hook. Icon. pl. (1907), tab. 
2844. [Lardizabalaceae.] 
S. Brunonianae arcte affinis, differt, petiolis brevibus, foliolis saepe 
ellipticis, floribus minoribus, sepalis exterioribus latioribus, et staminum 
cornibus quam antheris brevioribus. 
Frutex scandens, glaber. Folia cum petiolo interdum usque ad 
20 cm, sed saepius circiter 10 cm longa, petiolo gracili basi leviter in- 
crassato; foliola tenuiter coriacea, graciliter petiolulata, elliptica, oblonga, 
ovato-oblonga, obovata vel interdum fere orbicularia, absque petiolulo 
3—10 em longa, utrinque rotundata, vel raro apice obtuse acuminata, 
Racemi numerosi, ad foliorum axillas fasciculati, graciles, multiflori, 
saepius 4—6 cm longi. Flores masculi tantum visi vix 1 cm longi, 
pedicellos gracillimos excedentes. Sepala exteriora late ovata, interiora 
lanceolata. Nectaria clavata, filamentis breviora. Filamenta alte connata; 
antherae breviter cornutae. | 
India: Assam; without locality, Griffith, K. D. 116; Simons 195; 
Jenkins. 
39. Stauntonia obovata W. D Hemsley in Hook. Icon. pl., IX (1907), 
tab. 2847. 
Species ab ©. chinensi DC. cum qua a. cl. Bentham et postea 
auctoribus plurimis confusa, differt imprimis foliolis saepissime obovatis 
marginatis venis immersis inconspicuis, floribus minoribus et antheris 
breviter apiculatis. 
Frutex dioicus, scandens vel in rupibus repens, omnino glaber, 
caulibus gracilibus. Folia peltatim 8—5-foliolata, maxima cum petiolo 
communi 15—18 em longa et 10—12 cm diametro, sed saepius praecipue 
in ramis floriferis saltem dimidio minora; foliola coriacea, graciliter 
petiolulata, obovato-cuneata, interdum oblonga vel fere elliptica magni- 
tudine valde variabilia, cum petiolulo 2—10 cm longa, apice rotundata, 
margine incrassata, supra nitida, subtus pallidiora. Racemi in foliorum: 
