LARDIZABALACEAE. — HOLBOELLIA 345 
Our specimen, which is male, differs from Gagnepain’s description in its shorter 
(1-2.5 em. long) petiolules, longer (2.5-5 cm. long) pedicels and in the cuspidate 
rather than uncinate leaves. In all essential characters, however, it agrees exactly 
and we have no hesitation in referring it to Gagnepain’s species. Stauntonia 
Duclouxii is a handsome climber with large, fragrant and abundant flowers. It is 
apparently very rare in Hupeh, as we met with one plant only. 
Stauntonia sp. nov.? 
Western Szech’uan: Hung-ya Hsien, base of Wa-wu-shan, 
thickets, alt. 1300 m., September 1908 (No. 894). 
This is distinct from any species known to us. It seems nearest, however, to 
S. Duclouzii Gagnepain, from which it differs chiefly in its 4—6-foliolate leaves and in 
the thinner leaflets usually obtuse and mucronate at the apex. Our material con- 
sists only of leaves and fruit and is too fragmentary to serve as the type of a new 
species. 
F. Gagnepain in his elaborate paper (Révision des Lardizabalées asiatiques de 
l'Herbier du Muséum (Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris, XIV. 64-70 [1908]) discourses 
carefully on the classification of this family, and we agree with him in considering 
Stauntonia and Holboellia distinct genera. The confluent filaments of the stamens 
in Stauntonia (with which we unite Parvatia) are concomitant with the relatively 
thin, acuminate sepals except in the case of S. filamentosa Griffith; the free fila- 
ments in Holboellia are concomitant with thick, fleshy, obtuse sepals. We agree 
with Hemsley (in Hooker's Icon. XXIX. sub. t. 2843 (1907)) in uniting Decaisne's 
Parvatia with Stauntonia De Candolle. The presence of six nectaries in both male 
and female flowers in Parvatia and their presence in the female and absence in 
the male flowers in Stauntonia seems too slight a character to base generic dis- 
tinction upon. 
HOLBOELLIA Wall. 
Holboellia coriacea Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 342 (1900). — 
Réaubourg in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LIII. 453 (1906). 
Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-1300 m., May 
1907 (No. 146 in part; climber 3-5 m., male flowers white, female 
flowers purple); Changlo Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-1300 m., May 20 and 
October 1907 (No. 146, in part; climber 3-5 m., male flowers white, 
female flowers purple, fruit purple); Hsing-shan Hsien, in a ravine, 
alt. 600-1000 m., May 7, 1907 (No. 2385; climber 4 m., flowers white) ; 
without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 5225, 7788). 
A common climber in rocky places up to 1300 m. alt. in western Hupeh. It is 
closely allied to H. latifolia Wallich, with which it has been confused by Réaubourg 
and others. It is readily distinguished, however, from that species by its constantly 
3-foliolate, more coriaceous, and less conspicuously veined leaves, by the longer 
peduncles and longer pedicels to the pistillate inflorescence, by filaments as long or 
slightly longer than the anthers and by smaller seeds. The undescribed fruit is 
