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has never been detected; the probabilities are very great that Gaudichaud's 

 specimen came from Macao, where he also botanized, and not from the 

 Philippines. Doctor Gagnepain informs me that he was unable to locate 

 Gaudichaud's specimen in the Paris herbarium. It is to be noted that in 

 the original description of the species Engler states "patria ignota." The 

 type of Aglaonema acutispathum N. E. Br. was a specimen purchased in 

 Hongkong by Dr. Knaggs, and was thought to have come from the vicinity 

 of Canton; however, Brown 41 states that there is another specimen in the 

 Kew Herbarium labelled as having been brought from Shanghai by Dr. 

 Knaggs; he also states that it was cultivated in southern China, the basis 

 of this being Hance 11^59. At any rate, the species must now definitely 

 be credited to Kwangtung Province, at least as a cultivated plant, and 

 excluded from the Philippine list. 



DIOSCOREACEAE 



DIOSCOREA Linnaeus 

 DIOSCOREA PENTAPHYLLA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1032. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), at Wa Shau 

 T'oi, Merrill 10886, August 20, 1917, in thickets, altitude about 160 meters; 

 a sterile specimen; White Cloud Mountain, near Canton, Levine 1687, 

 September, 1917. 



This species is widely distributed in tropical Asia and Malaya but has 

 not previously been reported from Kwangtung Province. 



LILIACEAE 

 PELIOSANTHES Andrews 

 PELIOSANTHES STENOPHYLLA sp. nov. 



Foliis numerosissimis, anguste lanceolatis, usque ad 27 cm 

 longis, 5 ad 10 mm latis, utrinque attenuatis, nervis 7 vel 9, 

 nervulis transversalibus obsoletis ; inflorescentiis usque ad 15 cm 

 longis, floribus cernuis, pallide purpureis, circiter 7 mm longis, 

 pedicellis binis vel trinis, 10 ad 12 mm longis, articulatis ; bracteis 

 scariosis, lanceolatis, acuminatis, inferioribus usque ad 2 cm 

 longis, superioribus minoribus. 



Rootstock 5 mm in diameter or less, woody, covered with the 

 scarious basal portions of old leaves. Leaves numerous, up 

 to 30 or more on each plant, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceo- 

 late, chartaceous, attenuate at both ends, the blades 13 to 27 cm 

 long, 5 to 10 mm wide, acuminate, sometimes slightly falcate, 

 the longitudinal veins 7 or 9, the transverse veinlets obsolete, 

 the very young leaves with broad, pale, scarious, deciduous 

 margins, these scarious margins more or less persistent on the 

 lower parts of the petioles and imbricately surrounding the 

 short stem, the petioles up to 7 cm in length. Scapes solitary, 

 erect, rather many-flowered, up to 15 cm in length, the flowers 



"Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1903) 185. 



