xiii, c, 3 Merrill: Flora of Loh Fau Mountain 135 



pale-purple, nodding, somewhat campanulate, fascicled, usually 

 two or three from the axil of each bract, their pedicels slender, 

 10 to 12 mm long, jointed in the middle, the bracts scarious, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, the lower ones up to 2 cm in length, the 

 upper ones gradually shorter. Perianth-segments lanceolate, 

 acuminate, about 6 mm long, 2 to 2.5 mm wide. Anthers about 

 3 mm long, subsessile. Ovules 2 in each cell. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10757 

 (type), Levine 1613, August 16, 1917, widely scattered in damp shaded 

 ravines, altitude 900 to 1,000 meters. 



This species is well characterized by its very numerous and unusually 

 narrow leaves, differing from all of the described species in the latter 

 character. It is entirely different from the only other species known from 

 Kwangtung Province, Peliosanthes macrostegia Hance, the type of which 

 was also from Loh Fau Mountain. 



ORCHIDACEAE 



HERMINIUM Linnaeus 

 HERMINIUM ANGUSTI FOLIUM (Lindl.) Benth. ex Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. 6 (1890) 129. 

 Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 11121, 

 Levine U79, August 15, 1917, widely scattered on open grassy slopes, 

 altitude 100 to 1,150 meters. 



This genus has not previously been reported from Kwangtung Province. 

 The species extends from India to China and Formosa, the Philippines, 

 Java, and Timor. 



PIPERACEAE 



PEPEROMIA Ruiz & Pavon 



PEPEROMIA REFLEXA A. Dietr. Sp. PI. 1 (1831) 180, forma CAPENSIS 

 Miq. Syst. Pip. (1843) 169. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 108i6, 

 August 24, 1917, on ledges among mosses in damp ravines, altitude about 

 900 meters. 



Peperomia reftexa A. Dietr. has previously been reported from China, 

 but not from Kwangtung Province; it is widely distributed in the tropics 

 of the Old World. 



MORACEAE 



FICUS Linnaeus 

 %S/ FICUS RECTINERVIA sp. nov. § Eusyce. 



Frutex ut videtur parvus, ramulis junioribus hirsutis, ramis 

 ramulisque cicatricibus multis notatis, internodiis brevissimis; 

 foliis brevissime petiolatis, subcoriaceis, lanceolatis ad lineari- 

 lanceolatis, usque ad 10 cm longis, glabris, laevis, nitidis, integris, 

 apice tenuiter acuminatis, basi obtusis et minute cordatis, mar- 

 gine revolutis, nervis utrinque circiter 20, patulis, rectis, dis- 



