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This species may be at once recognized by its obtuse leaves and shortly racemose 

 or fasciculate axillary inflorescences. 



SAUROPUS BL 



Sauropus albicans Blume, Bijdr. 596 (1825). — Baillon, jStude Gen, 

 Euphorh. 635, t. 27, fig. 19, 20 (1858). — Miiller Arg. in De Candolle, 

 Prodr. XV. pt. 2, 240 (1866). — Hooker f., Fl BriL Ind. V. 332 

 (1887). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 420 (1891). 



Western Szech'uan: Hungya Hsien, thickets, alt. 1000 m., 

 September 1908 (No. 2436; shrub 1-1.25 m. high; flowers white); 

 Mt, Omei, July 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 5772; shrub 3 m. high). 



GLOCHIDION Forst. 



Glochidion puberum Hutchinson, n. comb. 



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Agyneia jmhera Linnaeus, Mant. IL 296 (1771). 



Agyneia impuhes Linnaeus, 1. c. 



Bradleia sinica Gaertner, Fruct. II. 127, t. 109, fig. 1 (1791). 



Glochidion sinicum Hooker et Arnott, Bot. Voy. Beechey, 210 (1836). — Bentliam, 



FL Hongk. 314 (1861). 

 Phyllanthits puberus Muller Arg. in Flora, XLVIIL 387 (1865) ; in De Candolle, 



Prodr. XV. pt. 2, 307 (1866), excl. var. a Fortunei. 

 Glochidion ohscurum Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 425 (non Blume) 

 (1894). 



Kiangsi : Kuling, common on roadside, up to 650 m., Aug. 1, 1907 

 (No. 1599; shrub 0.7-1.5 m. high). Western Hupeh:Ichang, com- 

 mon up to 450 m., June and September 1907 (No. 2434; shrub 1 m. 

 high; flowers whitish, fruit bright scarlet). Western Szech'uan: 

 without precise locahty, 600 m., June 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4446). 

 Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor. 



Readily distinguished from G. ohscurum Blume {Phyllanthus ohscurus Willdenow) 

 from India and the Malay Archipelago, with which it has hitherto been associatea, 

 by the shortly stalked depressed-globose manv-lobed capsules. In Blume s spe^je 

 the capsules are long-stalked and ovoid-ellipsoid in shape and scarcely or not at 

 lobed. 



Glochidion Wilsonii Hutchinson, n. sp. 



Frutex usque ad 3 m. altus; rami angulares v. costati, sicco brunnei, 

 glabri; ramuli erecto-patentes, graciles, glabri. Folia oblique lanceo- 

 lata, apice acuta v. breviter acuminata, basi obtusa v. cuneato-obtusa, 

 3-8 cm. longa, 1.5-3 cm. lata, tenuiter chartacea, glabra, infra glau- 

 cescentia; costa media utrinque elevata, infra prominens, ad apice 

 laminae eensim aneaistata, infra straminea: nervi laterales utnnsec 



