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last International Botanical Congress," Planchon's generic designation 

 should be the one to be retained. Gagnepain 6 has clearly shown that 

 Landukia Planch, is not generically distinct from Parthenocissus. Landukia 

 Planch, has page priority over Parthenocissus Planch., and hence has claims 

 to recognition as the valid generic name, for the group under discussion, 

 among those botanists who accept the generic lists of nomina conservanda 

 adopted by the last two International Botanical Congresses. That Landukia 

 should be included in the next list of nomina rejicenda is evident, and I 

 prefer to make no new combinations under this generic name at the present 

 time. The proper specific name for a common Chinese species, however, 

 needs adjustment, as there is no reason whatever for discarding Blume's 

 very descriptive name for the plant now known as Parthenocissus landuk 

 Gagnep. Ampelopsis heterophylla Sieb. & Zucc. was published many years 

 after Blume's binomial, and of course does not invalidate Blume's specific 

 name. 



PARTHENOCISSUS HETEROPHYLLA (Blume) Merr. in Philip. Journ 

 Sci. 1 1 (1916) Bot. 129. 



Ampelopsis heterophylla Blume Bijdr. (1825) 194. 



Cissus landuk Hassk. in Flora 25 (1842) Beibl. 2:39. 



Vitis landuk Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1 (1863) 90. 



Landukia landuk Planch, in DC. Monog. Phan. 5 (1887) 447. 



Parthenocissus landuk Gagnep. in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 24 

 (1911) 15, et in Sargent PI. Wils. 1 (1911) 102. 

 Kwangtung Province, near Canton, Levine 1271, August, 1917; Loh Fau 

 Mountain Merrill 10715, August, 1917: Chekiang Province, Meyer 1613 

 Hainan, Hongkong Herbarium 413. Probably referable here is Merrill 

 11132 from plants cultivated on a compound wall at Sheklung, Kwangtunt? 

 Provmce, which differs from other specimens cited in having 3- and 

 o-toliolate leaves. 



STERCULIACEAE 

 PTEROSPERMUM Schreber 

 nO^ PTEROSPERMUM LEVINEI sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 13 m alta partibus junioribus et subtus foliis 

 dense subferrugineo- ad subalbido-tomentosis. Ramis teretibus 

 glabns, tenuibus; foliis oblongis, chartaceis, leviter inaequila- 

 terahbus, integris, 8 ad 14 cm longis, 4 ad 5.5 cm latis, supra 

 brunneo-ohvaceis, nitidis, glabris, acuminatis, basi leviter oblique 

 truncatis vel subcordatis, subtus densissime tomentosis nervis 

 utnnque circiter 8, distinctis; petiolis circiter 8 mm longis; 

 stipulis ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, integris, inaequilateralibus,' 

 acutis ad acuminatis, utrinque minute albido-tomentosis, circiter 

 5 mm longis, deciduis; fructibus ellipsoideis ad oblongo-ellipsoid- 

 eis, teretibus, 4.5 ad 5 cm longis, brunneis, apice minute et 

 breviter acuminatis, basi stipitatis, stipite circiter 8 mm longo 



'Act. Ill me Congr. Internat. Bot. Brux. 1 (1910) 114. 

 "Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 24 (1911) 10. 



