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ASPARAGUS Tournefort 



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mV ASPARAGUS COCHINCHINENS1S (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Melanthium cochinchinev.se Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 216. 

 Asparagus lucidus Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1844) Misc. 29. 



Loureiro observed this species in both China and Cochin China, 

 and his description applies unmistakably to the well-known As- 

 paragus lucidus Lindl., in spite of his description of the fruit as 

 a capsule, this being a manifest error on the part of Loureiro. 

 Kwangtung material representing the species, and for which the 

 Cantonese name tin tung is recorded, corresponding to the form 

 Loureiro cites, tien muen turn, is as follows: Merrill 10699, Le- 

 vine 2174, Groff 2290, Dunn 6337. I have also examined the 

 following specimens : Hongkong, Curran. Hainan, Miss Monin- 

 ger 62. Formosa, Faurie 947, Bot. Inst. Tokyo 1570. 



ZINGIBERACEAE 



PHRYNIUM Willdenow 

 '^PHRYNIUM PLACENTARIUM (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Phyllodes placentaria Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 13. 

 Phrynium parviflorum Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1 (1820) 7; K. Schum. in Engl. 

 Pflanzenreich 11 (1902) 54. 



Loureiro observed this species both in China and in Cochin 

 China. The generic name Phyllodes antedates Phrynium, but 

 the latter is retained in the list of nomina conservanda adopted 

 by the Vienna Botanical Congress. K. Schumann cites Lourei- 

 ro's species as a doubtful synonym of Phrynium capitatum Willd., 

 a purple-flowered species recorded from both China and Cochin 

 China. From Loureiro's description of the flowers of his species 

 as white I am convinced that he had specimens of the species 

 currently known as Phrynium parviflorum Roxb., of which I 

 have excellent specimens from Cochin China, Pierre 626, and 

 from Kwangtung Province, China, Levine 1873, Groff 2524, with 

 the recorded Cantonese name chung ip, corresponding to Lou- 

 reiro's recorded Cantonese name toung iep. 



ORCHIDACEAE 



SPIRANTHES L. C. Richard 

 /^^SPIRANTHES ARISTOTELIA (Raeusch.) comb. nov. 



Epidendrum aristotelia Raeusch. Nomencl. ed. 3 (1797) 265. 



Aristotelia spiralis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 522. 



Spiranthes australis Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1824) sub t. 823, non Koch. 



Neottia sinensis Pers. Syn. 2 (1807) 511. 



Spiranthes sinensis Ames Orch. 2 (1908) 53. 



Aristotelia spiralis Lour., described by him as a new genus 

 and species, was based on specimens from the vicinity of Canton. 



