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guished by its conspicuously castaneous-capitate-glandular-pu- 
bescent inflorescences, the indumentum being of the same type 
on the rachis, bracts, calyces, and corollas. It is the first rep- 
resentative of the genus to be found in Kwangtung Province. 
ACANTHACEAE 
‘THUNBERGIA Linnaeus f. 
C 
’ THUNBERGIA CHINENSIS sp. nov. 
Species T. grandiflorae affinis, differt foliis minoribus, integris, 
floribus minoribus, circiter 4 cm longis, plerumque axillaribus, 
binis vel solitariis, bracteis pubescentibus, 2 ad 2.5 cm longis. 
A scandent herbaceous vine up to 4 m or more in length, more 
or less pubescent; the branches and branchlets slender, terete. 
Leaves ovate, deeply cordate, slenderly and sharply acuminate, 
entire, chartaceous, 5 to 9 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, more 
or less pubescent on both surfaces. Flowers pale blue or pur- 
plish, about 4 cm long, chiefly axillary, solitary or in pairs, 
sometimes in short racemes terminating lateral branches, their 
pedicels 2.5 to 3 em long. Bracts 2 to 2.5 em long, oblong- 
ovate, subacute, base truncate-rounded, cinereous-puberulent or 
pubescent. Calyx a truncate pubescent ring 4 to 5 mm in 
diameter. Corolla tube abruptly contracted about 4 mm from 
the base, then expanded, the limb up to 4 cm in diameter. 
Anthers 10 to 11 cm long. 
Kwangtung Province, Wa Shau Toi, Levine & McClure 6957 
(type), September, 1921, growing on trees and walls; Tangiin, 
Groff 4049, July, 1919, on slopes, scrambling over bamboo, with 
the local name koto ma tang. Hainan, Kungchow, McClure 
7644, October 14, 1921, common in dry thickets. 
A species manifestly allied to Thunbergia grandiflora Roxb., 
but with much smaller, pubescent, sharply acuminate, entire 
leaves which are not at all lobed, while its flowers are only about 
one-half as large as are those of Roxburgh’s species. 
RUBIACEAE 
HEDYOTIS Linnaeus 
©\ HEDYOTIS PLATYSTIPULA sp. nov. 
Erecta, glabra, suffruticosa, circiter 40 cm alta, parce ramosa; 
foliis petiolatis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, mem- 
branaceis, laevis, 8 ad 12 cm longis, apice acute acuminatis, 
basi abrupte angustatis et leviter decurrento-acuminatis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 6, perspicuis; stipulis magnis, reniformibus, 
usque ad 1.5 cm latis et 1 cm longis, margine tenuiter lacerato- 
