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Hypericum chinense Retz. Obs. 5 (1789) 27, non Linn. 
Hypericum olympicum Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 471, non Linn. 
Hypericum petiolatum Lour. op. cit. 472, non Linn. 
Elodes chinensis Hance in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 7 (1848) 472. 
Cratoxylon biflorum Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 36* (1863) 580. 
?Elodea pulchella Hort. Chels. ex Loud. Hort. Brit. Suppl. 1 (1832) 
587, nomen nudum. : 
Ancistrolobus brevipes Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 31* (1852) 383. 
Cratoxylon polyanthum Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. (1839-42) 
175, t. 86; Gagnep. in Lecomte Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine 1 (1909) 290. 
Cratoxylon chinense Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 292. 
The earliest description of this species seems to be H ypericum 
chinense Retz. (1789), non Linn., this description being the basis 
of Hypericum bdiflorum Lam. (1797). Cratoxylon biflorum 
Turcz. is typified by Wallich 4820, this binomial being published 
without reference to Lamarck’s earlier name (sub Hypericum), 
although representing the same species. The two forms de- 
scribed by Loureiro, one from Kwangtung Province, China, and 
one from Cochinchina, are both safely referable to the form 
currently known as Cratoxylon polyanthum Korth. The oldest 
specific name, regarding the validity of which there can be no 
question, appears to be Cratoxylon ligustrinum (Spach) Blume. 
Elodea pulchella Hort. Chels. ex Loud. Hort. Brit. Suppl. 1 
(1832) 587, currently reduced here, is practically a nomen 
nudum, the whole description being the statement that it is an 
evergreen, herbaceous, ornamental plant with rosy flowers. The 
description of it as herbaceous would exclude this as a synonym 
of Cratoxylon ligustrinum Blume, and for that matter would 
exclude the species from the genus Cratoxylon. 
CALOPHYLLUM Linnaeus 
CALOPHYLLUM CUCULLATUM sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramulis junioribus petiolisque ferrugineo-hirsu- 
tis, ramulis tenuibus, teretibus; foliis coriaceis, oblongis, 11 ad 
20 cm longis, distincte acuminatis, basi late rotuydatis et dis- 
tincte cucullatis, petiolo 7 ad 10 mm longo; infructescentiis axil- 
laribus, pedunculatis, circiter 5 cm longis, pedicellatis, plerumque 
3 vel 4 flabellatim dispositis; fructibus ovoideis, laevis, 1 cm 
longis. 
A small tree, the branchlets more or less ferruginous-hirsute 
as are the young petioles; the ultimate branches slender, terete, 
reddish-brown, 3 to 4 mm in diameter, the internodes up to 15 
cm in length. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, smooth, shining, 11 
to 20 cm long, 4.5 to 8 cm wide, the apex distinctly acuminate, 
the base broadly rounded and distinctly cucullate; midrib very 
