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5.5 ad 6 mm longis, liberis vel infra leviter connatis; ovarium 
pubescens, 3-loculare. 
Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10257, October 28, 1916, in 
damp shaded ravines, altitude about 1,100 meters. 
A very characteristic species manifestly in the alliance with Symplocos 
adenopus Hance and S. glandulifera Brand. It is well characterized by 
its axillary, fascicled, crowded flowers, its very densely villous branchlets, 
and its villous leaves. From Symplocos adenopus Hance, the type of 
_ which was from Loh Fau Mountain, it is distinguished, among other 
characters, by its villous leaves, its shorter, densely villous, not glandular 
petioles, and pubescent ovaries, and from Symplocos glandulifera Brand 
by its smaller villous leaves which are slenderly and sharply acuminate, 
their margins often sharply serrulate but not glandular, densely villous, 
shorter petioles and branchlets, and other characters. This new species 
is dedicated to Mr. G. W. Groff, of the Canton Christian College, to whom 
I am indebted for the opportunity of visiting Loh Fau Mountain, and 
for numerous courtesies extended during my field work in Kwangtung 
Province. 
VERBENACEAE 
CALLICARPA Linnaeus 
CALLICARPA LONGISSIMA (Hemsl.) comb. nov. 
Callicarpa longifolia Lam. var. ? longissima Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Bot. 26 (1890) 253. 
Honam Island, near Canton, Merrill 9986, in villages near Canton | 
Christian College. 
The type of Hemsley’s variety was from near Canton, and is the form 
interpreted by Hance and by Maximowicz as Callicarpa longifolia Lam. 
Lamarck’s type was from Malacca, and Callicarpa longifolia Lam. is a 
species entirely distinct from this Chinese form; Hemsley states that his 
var. longissima stands out very distinctly from all others (i. e., other forms 
of Callicarpa longifolia Lam.) and perhaps should be raised to specific 
rank. It is distinguished from Lamarck’s species by its narrow, elongated, 
nearly glabrous, entire or but very minutely toothed leaves, its smaller 
flowers, and other characters. In some respects it approaches the Philip- 
pine Callicarpa dolichophylla Merr., from which it is distinguished by its 
vegetative characters. 
VITEX Linnaeus 
VITEX QUINATA (Lour.) F. N. Williams in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II 5 (1905) 
431. 
Cornutia quinata Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 387. 
Vitex loureirii Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechy’s Voy. (1841) 206, t. 48. 
Honam Island, near Canton, Merrill 9996, about villages, November 3, 
1916, a tree 10 to 12 meters high. 
The type of Cornutia quinata Lour. was from Canton. It is by no means 
certain that Hemsley was correct in reducing Vitex loureirii Hook. & Arn. 
to V. heterophylla Wall., for the Chinese specimens are distinctly different 
from the Indian ones currently referred to Roxburgh’s species. What- 
ever the relative status of the two species may be, Loureiro’s specific name 
is much the older. 
