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148 The Philippine Journal of Science uu 



THEACEAE 



TRISTYLIUM Turczaninow 



TRISTYLIUM OCHNACEUM (DC.) comb. nov. 



Cleyra ochnacea DC. in Mem. Soc. Phys. Genev. 1 (1822) 412 Prodr 

 1 (1824) 524. ' 



Eurya ochnacea Szysz. in Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3 8 (1893) 

 189. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan) Merrill 10243, 

 10686, October, 1916, August, 1917, Levine U5S, August, 1917, on exposed 

 open slopes, altitude about 1,000 meters. 



This species extends from Japan to Formosa and the central Himalayan 

 region, but has not previously been reported from Kwangtung Province. 

 My number 10243 was originally referred, with doubt, to Adinandra 

 rmllettn Benth., but Mr. Tutcher has called my attention to the fact that 

 the specimen is properly referable to Cleyra ochnacea DC; all the spec- 

 imens are in fruit and agree very closely with authentic Japanese material 

 received from the Leiden Herbarium. 



This species has been confused by some authors with the entirely dif- 

 ferent Ternstroemia japonica Thunb. Szyszylowicz has reduced Cleyra DC. 

 (non Thunb.) to Eurya Thunb., which does not appear to me to be the proper 

 disposition of it; I consider it to be more closely allied to Adinandra 

 Jack. Cleyra DC, non Thunb., nee Adans., is invalid, and I propose to adopt 

 Trxstyhum Turcz. as the proper valid generic name for this group. 



, TERNSTROEMIA Mutis 



^ TERNSTROEMIA KWANGTUNGENSIS sp. nov. 



Arbor 4 ad 5 m alta, glabra, ramis ramulisque crassis, rugosis ; 

 foliis crassime coriaceis, late ellipticis ad elliptico-ovatis, usque 

 ad 9 cm longis, breviter obtuseque acuminatis, basi decurrento- 

 acuminatis, in siccitate supra atro-brunneis, nitidis, subtus brun- 

 neis, opacis, nervis utrinque circiter 7, indistinctis, petiolis cras- 

 sis, 1.5 ad 2.3 cm longis; fructibus depresso-globosis, circiter 

 1.3 cm diametro (immaturis), sepalis persistentibus, coriaceis, 

 elliptico-ovatis, circiter 8 mm longis. 



A tree, 4 to 5 m high, entirely glabrous. Branches and branch- 

 lets thickened, rugose, brownish or somewhat reddish-brown, 5 

 to 7 mm in diameter, the petiolar scars rather prominent. 

 Leaves thickly coriaceous, broadly elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 7 to 

 9 cm long, 4 to 5 cm wide, the apex shortly and obtusely acumi- 

 nate, base decurrent-acuminate, the upper surface blackish- 

 brown when dry, prominently shining, the lower surface brown, 

 dull; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, slender,' 

 indistinct; petioles stout, black when dry, 1.5 to 2.3 cm long! 

 Fruits axillary, solitary, depressed-globose, about 1.3 cm in 

 diameter (immature), dark-brown when dry, the pedicels stout, 

 1 cm long or less. Persistent sepals coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, 

 about 8 mm long, rounded, scarcely fimbriate. 



