Th 
21,5 Merrill: The Flora of Southeastern China 51l 
dentatis, dentibus linearis, usque ad 1.5 mm longis; floribus 
numerosis, confertis glomeratis, axillaribus, glomerulis, circiter 
2 cm diametro, calycis lobis foliaceis, lanceolatis, acuminatis, 
circiter 8 mm longis. 
An erect, glabrous, sparingly branched, suffrutescent herb, 
about 40 cm high, the stems about 4 mm in diameter, sulcate 
when dry. Leaves oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, membrana- 
ceous, olivaceous, 8 to 12 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, smooth, nar- 
rowed upward to the sharply acuminate apex, the base abruptly 
narrowed and somewhat decurrent-acuminate, the midrib very 
prominent; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, 
distinct, curved-ascending, the reticulations obscure; petioles 1 
to 1.8 cm long; stipules large and conspicuous, rather thin, the 
older ones reniform, about 1.5 cm wide, up to 1 cm long, broadly 
rounded, the margins cut into numerous, slender, linear teeth 
or lobes which do not exceed 1.5 mm in length, the younger stip- 
ules 1 cm or less in width. Flowers numerous, subsessile, 
crowded in dense, axillary fascicles up to 2 cm in diameter, for 
the most part inclosed by the large, persistent stipules. Calyx 
tube about 1.2 mm long, the lobes foliaceous, lanceolate, acu- 
minate, about 8 mm long, 2 mm wide. Corolla not seen. 
Kwangtung Province, Tung Sing, K. K. Ts’oong 1915, June 
26, 1918. 
A very characteristic species easily recognized by its dense 
axillary fascicles, and especially by its very large, persistent, 
reniform stipules which for the most part conceal the flowers. 
It apparently belongs in the group with Hedyotis thwaitesii 
Hook. f. 
WENDLANDIA Bartling 
WENDLANDIA GLABRATA DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 411. 
Kwangtung Province, Tung Sing, K. K. Ts’oong 3779, June 
26, 1918, with the local name ha so muk. 
Previously recorded from China only from Yunnan; India to 
Java, Riu Kiu Islands, Formosa, and the Philippines. 
CAMPANULACEAE 
PENTAPHRAGMA Wallich 
PENTAPHRAGMA SPICATUM sp. nov. 
Herba suffruticosa, plus minusve sordide pubescens; foliis 
chartaceis, supra olivaceis, glabris, subtus pallidis, junioribus 
pubescentibus, inaequilateralibus, ellipticis, 10 ad 18 cm longis, 
apice rotundatis, basi acutis ad obtusis, nervis utrinque circiter 
4, adscendentibus, subtus perspicuis, petiolo 1.5 ad 3 cm longo; 
