Species novae ex „Hookers Icones Plantarum“. : 345 
axillis fasciculati, foliis: breviores, pauciflori, pedunculis pedicellisque 
gracillimis; bracteolae parvae, caducae. Flores masculi circiter 1 cm 
longi. Sepala 6, biseriata, 3 exteriora ovata, longe acuteque acuminata, 
3 interiora multo angustiora. Nectaria nulla. Stamina sepalis dimidio 
breviora, filamentis fere ad apices usque connatis, antheris apiculatis. 
Pistillodia 3, minuta. Flores feminei masculis similes sed nectariis 
minimis (cireiter 0,5 mm) instructi. —  Stauntonia chinensis, Benth. in 
Hook. Kew Journ. Bot., III, p. 258 et Fl. Honkg., p. 14, non DC. 
China: Hongkong; various localities, Champion, 43, in part. 
Wright, 7; Wilford, 338; Lamont. | 
Fortune es n. 166 also belongs to this species, which is apparently 
confined to the island of Hongkong. The type of S. chinensis is at the 
British Museum, and Champions specimens at Kew are a mixture of that 
species and S. obovata, mostly the latter. On one sheet there is a large 
leaf of S. chinensis, and the rest is S, obovata. On another sheet a small’ 
imperfect fruiting specimen of the latter is associated with foliage and 
flowers of the former. Only two female flowers of S. obovata Hemsl., 
were found, and unfortunately it is not certain from which specimen 
they were taken; but there is no doubt about the species, as it was the 
only one under observation at the time. They were not found until after 
the plate had been printed off. 
40. Stauntonia longipes W. B. Hemsley in Hook. Icon. IX (1907) 
tab. 2848. 
Species distincta pedunculis longissimis 1—3-floris et floribus pro 
genere amplis. 
Frutex monoieus, scandens, omnino glaber, ramis teretibus cinereis. 
Folia juniora tantum visa) palmatim 5-foliolata, cum petiolo 12—15 cm 
longa; foliola 6, graciliter petiolulata, tenuia, lanceolato-oblonga vel 
oblanceolata, cum petiolulo 4—8 cm longa, basi cuneata, apice minute 
apiculata. Pedunculi nudi, 1—3-flori, elongati, folia subaequantes 
longiores cum pedicello 12—15 cm longi; bracteolae minutae, fere obso- 
-letae. Flores masculi paullo majores (an semper?), circiter 2 cm longi; 
sepala inaequalia, carnosa, oblongo-spatulata, apice obtusa, incrassata ; 
nectaria squämiformia, fere orbicularia, circiter 0,75 mm lata; stamina 
quam sepala breviora; filamenta ima basi leviter connata; antherae quam 
filamenta breviores, apiculatae; pistillodia 3, clavata. Flores feminei 
masculis similes; sepala obovoideo-rotundata, interiora minora; nectaria 
deltoidea, 0,5 mm lata; staminodia antheroidea, circiter 0,75 longa, 
loculis caris albis discretis, connectivo crasso. Pistilli carpella 3, ovulis 
longitudinaliter circiter 5-seriatis, Fructus ignotus. 
China: Western Hupeh; E. H. Wilson, 648. 
Very small nectaries and staminodes are characteristic of this 
species. The staminodes resemble sessile anthers with two white, parallel 
cells, separated by a thick connective. The number of parts in the 
various floral whorls raries. Male flowers have been examined which 
