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neis vel glaucescentibus, eleganter glanduloso-lepidotis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 8, distinctis; fructibus circiter 1.8 cm longis, 

 oblongo-ovoideis, brunneis, glandulosis; sepalis persistentibus, 

 subovatis, circiter 1.2 cm longis. 



A tree 3 to 4 m high, the young branchlets, petioles, and young 

 leaves prominently ciliate with long, spreading, brown or ferru- 

 ginous, slender hairs 3 to 5 mm in length. Branches terete, 

 smooth, reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves crowded at the apices 

 of the branchlets, subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, 5 to 

 10 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, the apex broadly rounded, sometimes 

 shortly apiculate, the base acute or subacute, the younger ones 

 with scattered, slender, elongated hairs on both surfaces and on 

 the margins, the older ones glabrous or nearly so, the upper 

 surface shining, brownish-olivaceous when dry, the reticulations 

 impressed, the lower surface of about the same color as the upper 

 or glaucous, with numerous, scattered, brown, shining lepidote 

 glands ; primary lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 

 slender, distinct, anastomosing; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flow- 

 ers not seen. Fruits umbellately arranged at the tips of the 

 branchlets, usually 3 to 5 on each branchlet, their pedicels about 

 2 cm in length, glabrous or nearly so, the capsules brown when 

 dry, glandular, oblong-ovoid, about 1.8 cm long and 1 cm in 

 diameter, the subpersistent style at least 2.5 cm long; sepals 

 persistent, subovate, obtuse, about 1.2 cm long, reticulate, glan- 

 dular, glabrous, chartaceous. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10952 

 (type), Levine 13S0, from the same plant, August 24, 1917, in a deep 

 forested ravine in the "Perfect Pool gorge" growing out over a small 

 stream, altitude about 950 meters. 



This species must be exceedingly rare, as only a single plant was observed 

 during our exploration of the numerous gorges on the upper slopes of Loh 

 Fau Mountain. It is strikingly characterized by its indumentum; its 

 subelliptic leaves which are broadly rounded at the apices and prominently 

 lepidote-glandular beneath; and its persistent, reticulate sepals. It is 

 dedicated to Mr. C. O. Levine, of the Canton Christian College. 



CLETHRACEAE 

 CLETHRA Linnaeus 

 CLETHRA FABRI Hance in Journ Bot. 21 (1883) 130. 



Clethra canescens Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1881) 33; 

 Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Add. Series 10 (1912) 155, non 

 Reinw. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 107U2, 

 August 21, 1917, about boulders on open grassy slopes, altitude about 1,100 

 meters, rare. 



The type of Clethra fabri Hance was from Loh Fau Mountain. Hance's 



