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LILIACEAE | 
TRICYRTIS Wallich 
TRICYRTIS MACROPODA Mig. in Versl. en Med. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. 
2* (1868) 86; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 17 (1879) 464. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain, Levine & McClure, 
September, 1921. In moist shaded ravines, altitude about 800 
meters. The specimen is in fruit, but agrees closely with the 
descriptions of Miquel’s species. The genus is new to Kwang- 
tung Province. 
URTICACEAE 
POLYCHROA Loureiro 
(Pellionia Gaudichaud) 
POLYCHROA TSOONGII sp. nov. 
Caulis repens, suffruticosis, 5 mm diametro, glabris; foliis pa 
issime petiolatis, valde inaequilateralibus, chartaceis, oblongo- 
ellipticis, usque ad 17 cm longis, integris, acuminatis, basi valde 
oblique inaequilateraliter caudatis, supra glabris, olivaceis, sub- 
tus pallidioribus, ad costa nervisque leviter pilosis, utrinque cys- 
tolithis numerosis irregulariter dispositis instructis; inflorescen- 
tiis @ axillaribus, tenuiter pedunculatis, cymosis, subglobosis, 
circiter 1 cm diametro; floribus numerosis, confertis, tenuiter 
pedicellatis, calycis segmentis anguste oblongis, acutis vel acu- 
minatis, 1 mm longis, haud_corniculatis. 
Stems creeping, suffruticose, glabrous, nearly black when dry, 
with numerous roots on the lower surface. Leaves chartaceous, 
very inequilateral, long-petioled, oblong-elliptic, entire, 11 to 17 
em long, 5 to 8 em wide, apex acuminate, base obliquely cordate, 
the lobes rounded, the larger lobe 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, the narrower 
one about 1 cm wide, sinus acute, the upper surface glabrous, 
olivaceous, the lower paler, somewhat pilose on the midrib and 
nerves, both surfaces with numerous irregularly disposed cysto- 
liths; stipules lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, about 2 cm long; 
petioles 7 to 11 cm long, sparingly pilose. Female inflorescences 
axillary, solitary, subglobose, about 1 cm in diameter, their pe- 
duncles slender, about 2 cm long. Flowers numerous, crowded, 
their pedicels 0.5 to 2 mm long. Calyx segments 5, narrowly 
oblong, glabrous, 1 mm long, acute or acuminate, not at all 
corniculate or cucullate. Achenes elliptic, acute, somewhat com- 
pressed, about 1 mm long. 
Kwangtung Province, Tung Sing, K. K. Ts’oong 1870, June 
22, 1918. 
