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known as Callicarpa purpurea Juss., but which should be known as C. 

 dichotoma (Lour.) Raeusch. It differs in its relatively much narrower 

 leaves, and depauperate, subsessile, very few-flowered cymes. 



CALLICARPA DICHOTOMA (Lour.) Raeusch. Nomencl. ed. 3 (1817) 37. 

 Porphyra dichotoma Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 70. 

 Callicarpa purpurea Juss. in Ann. Mus. Paris 7 (1806) 69. 

 Kwangtung Province, Teng Woo Mountain Levine 743, Levine & Groff 

 114, November, 1916 and June, 1917. 



The type of Porphyra dichotoma Lour, was from the vicinity of Canton, 

 and the specimens cited above agree perfectly with the original descrip- 

 tion and are practically topotypes. There is no valid reason for displac- 

 ing Loureiro's specific name by the more recent Callicarpa purpurea Juss. 



CALLICARPA LONGILOBA nom. nov. 



Callicarpa tomentosa Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey's Voy. (1841) 205; 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. (1861) 269; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. 26 (1890) 255; Dunn & Tutcher Fl. Kwangtung & Hong- 

 kong (1912) 202; ? Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. (1809) 158; ? 

 Schauer in DC. Prodr. 11 (1857) 647, non Murr. 

 This strongly characterized species is readily distinguished by its 

 slender, elongated calyx-teeth; and, there being no tenable name for it, 

 I propose to call it Callicarpa longiloba. Callicarpa tomentosa Willd. was 

 based on a specimen the origin of which was unknown, and it may not be 

 the same as Callicarpa tomentosa as interpreted by modern authors; there 

 is little in the description that would indicate that Willdenow's species is 

 the same as the Chinese form commonly referred to Callicarpa tomentosa 

 Willd. Whatever the status of the form Willdenow originally described, 

 the name is invalidated by Callicarpa tomentosa (Linn.) Murr. (1798) 

 based on Tomex tomentosa Linn. (1753), it being the valid name of the 

 Indian species commonly known as Callicarpa lanata Linn. Specimens ex- 

 amined are as follows: Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lo- 

 faushan) Merrill 10312, 10677, Levine 1517; Formosa, Kanehira. 



GESNERACEAE 



DIDYMOCARPUS Wallich 

 > DIDYMOCARPUS SWINGLEI sp. nov. 



Herba acaulescens; foliis omnibus radicalibus, succulentis, 

 fragilis, in siccitate membranaceis, olivaceis, utrinque parce 

 pubescentibus, oblongo-obovatis, usque ad 15 cm longis, apice 

 rotundatis, basi decurrento-acuminatis, saepe inaequilateralibus, 

 margine undulato-dentatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6; scapis pen- 

 dulis, usque ad 20 cm longis, pubescentibus, plerumque tricho 

 tome ramosis, pedicellis 4 ad 8 cm longis, bracteis parvis, oblon- 

 gis, circiter 4 mm longis ; calycis lobis lanceolatis, pubescentibus, 

 liberis, 7 mm longis; corolla campanulata, 3 ad 3.5 cm longa, 

 purpureo-azurea ; capsulis circiter 2 cm longis, pubescentibus. 



