21,5 Merrill: The Flora of Southeastern China 499 
A shrub, the branches terete, grayish, glabrous, the branchlets 
reddish brown, the younger parts more or less appressed-pubes- 
cent. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-elliptic, 6 to 8 em long, 2 to 8 
cm wide, brownish olivaceous, entire or the upper part very 
obscurely toothed, apex slenderly acuminate, base acute, both 
surfaces minutely verrucose-punctate, when very young sparingly 
appressed-hirsute, when mature glabrous or nearly so; lateral 
nerves 7 or 8 on each side of the midrib, distinct; petioles about 
4 mm long, when young appressed-hirsute, in age glabrous. 
Inflorescences solitary in the uppermost axils, paniculate, about 
12 cm long, the panicles lax, the branches few, spreading, the 
lower ones up to 7 cm long, the upper gradually shorter, glabrous 
or nearly so, bracts linear, about 2 mm long. Male flowers 
yellow, rather few, at the ends of the ultimate branchlets, sepals 
oblong-obovate, 1.2 mm long, glabrous. Petals obovate, yellow, 
entire, 5 mm long, rounded. Anthers 3, at the top of the short 
column. Female flowers and fruits not known. 
Kwangtung Province, Tung Sing, K. K. Ts’oong 1 875, June 22, 
1918. 
This species is manifestly allied to Trigonostemon thyrsoideum 
Stapf and is the first representative of the genus to be found in 
Kwangtung Province and the second species to be recorded from 
China. It differs particularly from Stapf’s species in its short 
petioles, its much smaller leaves, and its lax panicles. 
ALCHORNEA Swartz 
ALCHORNEA TILIIFOLIA (Benth.) Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea 34 (1865) 
168, DC. Prodr. 15* (1866) 903; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenreich 63 
(1914) 250. 
Stipellaria tiliifolia Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 6 (1854) 4. 
Kwangtung Province, Yamchow, K. K. Ts’oong 1926, June 22, 
1918, with the local name pak mo ting. 
Himalayan region to Tenasserim, Siam, the Andaman Islands, 
and Tonking, hitherto recorded from China only from Yunnan. 
SAPINDACEAE 
NEPHELIUM Linnaeus 
NEPHELIUM LAPPACEUM Linn. Mant. 2 (1771) 566. 
Kwangtung Province, Poon Ye, Chim Kong, Kwok Wa Shau 
6813, June 20, 1921. In villages (probably planted), with the 
local name hung mo taan. 
